Regular biography
Jason F. Alicea is the William K. Davis Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, affiliated with the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy. He holds a B.S. from the University of Florida (2001), an M.A. from the University of California (Santa Barbara) (2005), and a Ph.D. (2007). He was an Associate Professor at Caltech from 2012 to 2015, became a Professor in 2015, and was appointed as the Davis Professor in 2022. His research focuses on theoretical physics.
Scholar-generated biography
Jason Alicea is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, specializing in condensed matter theory. His research focuses on topological phases of matter, non-Abelian statistics, and quantum computation. Alicea's work explores Majorana fermions in solid-state systems, including semiconductor devices and cold-atom quantum wires. He investigates topological quantum information processing and the potential for fault-tolerant quantum computing using Majorana zero modes. Additionally, his research addresses exotic anyons, superconductivity in twisted bilayer graphene, and the engineering of robust quantum spin Hall states. His contributions span both theoretical and experimental approaches to understanding topological materials and their applications in quantum technologies.