Assoc Prof Xiaji Liu wins ARC Future Fellowship

Assoc. Prof Xia-Ji Liu has been awarded a prestigious four-year Australian Research Council Future Fellowship in the 2014 round. She will study the creation and manipulation of the elusive Majorana fermions, hypothesized by Italian physicist Ettore Majorana in 1937.

Project summary:

Majorana fermions - particles that are their own antiparticles - play a key role in future quantum technologies such as fault-tolerant quantum computers. Being considered only as a mathematical possibility over the past 75 years, they might be surprisingly materialised owing to recent rapid experimental advances. In collaboration with the world-leading cold-atom laboratories in Australia, China and the USA, this project aims to pave a new direction to create and manipulate Majorana fermions towards realistic atomtronics devices, by using the highly controllable setting of ultracold atomic Fermi gases. This research complements the search of Majorana fermions in solid-state devices.

2014                      $101,619.00
2015                      $201,038.00
2016                      $201,038.00
2017                      $201,038.00
2018                        $99,419.00
Total                     $804,152.00