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Read the rest of Part 1 of Q is for Quantum (or if you didn't attend the meeting, read the whole part starting from page 9!). Take your time, and go back and re-read whenever you need to!
Read Lecture 3 and Section 4.1 of Scott Aaronson's lecture notes. The reading we read at the meeting didn't involve any math, so you may find these notes useful if you're interested in the math (note: linear algebra background is useful for this reading!).
I definitely didn't give Terry Rudolph enough justice when I brought him up. You can read a little more about who he is here!:
Intermediate
More on Majorana Fermions
Resources
Read all 5 pages of this perspective piece by Frank Wilczek on Majorana fermions: This is longer than our typical readings, so please set aside a bit more time to focus on it! For reference, it took me between half an hour and an hour to read.
(Highly recommended) Watch the following introduction to Majorana fermions from QuTech academyThis is a remarkably clear video, though it may help to read the Wilczek piece first.
(Optional) Skim the following survey paper: Some notable sections: the abstract, the introduction, and section 3. I might talk about section 3 at our next meeting, because its says a couple of very strange things.
(Optional) Skim the following lecture notes from LMU (Munich). The first page is more approachable than the rest, but check out the creation/annihilation operator math on page 2 as well! I'm not expecting you to understand it - just take a museum walk through the equations.
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