Majorana Modes: Fundamentals, Status & Directions

Workshop Overview
Majorana modes lie at the heart of contemporary condensed-matter physics, exhibiting non-Abelian exchange statistics; when protected by topology, they are robust against environmental perturbations. Here, “Majorana mode” is used broadly to include a localized zero-energy Majorana state (a Majorana zero mode) and chiral Majorana edge states with gapless dispersion crossing zero energy.

This three-day in-person workshop returns to fundamentals and open questions. It opens with a tutorial session on the afternoon of October 13 for non-experts and adjacent fields, and emphasizes rigorous theory–experiment dialogue, robust methodology, and concrete benchmarks for realizing and testing Majorana modes.

Participants
Experimentalists and theorists working on Majorana modes
Researchers in adjacent fields (quantum materials, superconductivity, mesoscopic physics)
Graduate students and postdocs interested in entering the field
Topics include (non-exhaustive)
Majorana zero modes in a variety of nanostructures
Chiral Majorana edge states in quantum spin liquids and other platforms
Disorder, interactions, and realistic device modeling
Experimental diagnostics and “smoking gun” signatures
Topological Quantum Spin Systems