Quantum phases of condensed matter, such as superconductors and topological insulators, are promising candidates to serve as substrates for quantum information processing. Superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs) already encode qubits and can be coupled together and manipulated. There are exciting recent proposals to use modes at the edges of quantum Hall systems and Majorana modes at the ends of quantum wires to encode and manipulate quantum information. These latter modes would enjoy "topological protection", being robust to local disorder or decoherence.The goal of this school/workshop is to introduce researchers in the subfields of condensed matter and quantum information to this expanding area of common interest, with the hope of sparking new ideas and collaborations. We will bring together two distinct communities: condensed matter researchers who wish to learn the basics of quantum computation, and researchers in quantum information who want learn what types of cond...
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