Waheb Bishara received his bachelor’s degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the Technion, Israel, in 2003. He received his PhD in 2009 in theoretical physics at Caltech. His PhD research focused on exotic states of matter, in particular fractional quantum Hall systems, and their possible uses as hardware for quantum computers.
Publications:
1.Quantum Hall states at ν=2 / k+2 : Analysis of the particle-hole conjugates of the general level- k Read-Rezayi states. W. Bishara, G. Fiete and C. Nayak, Physical Review B 77, 241306 (2008), Editors’ Suggestion.
2.Multi-channel Kondo Models in non-Abelian Quantum Hall Droplets.
G. Fiete, W. Bishara and C. Nayak, Physical Review Letters 101, 176801 (2008).
3.Edge States and Interferometers in the Pfaffian and anti-Pfaffian States.
W. Bishara and C. Nayak , Physical Review B 77, 165302 (2008), Editors’ Suggestion.
4.Sagnac Interference in Carbon Nanotube.
W. Bishara, G. Refael and M. Bockrath, Physical Review B 78, 165405 (2008).
5.Non-Abelian Anyon Superconductivity.
W. Bishara and C. Nayak, Physical Review Letters 99, 066401 (2007).
6.No Sliding in Time.
K. Shtengel, C. Nayak, W. Bishara and C. Chamon, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 38 (2005).