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Nayak served as a professor of physics at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1997 to 2006 before joining UCSB as a professor of physics in 2007, where he continues to hold a position. Additionally, he was a visiting professor at
Nihon University in
Japan in 2002.[7]
In 2005, Nayak transitioned to a role at Microsoft.[2][8]
In 2014, he became the Principal Research Manager of
Microsoft Station Q, a research lab focused on quantum computing and condensed matter physics.[9][10]
In 2018, he assumed leadership of the quantum hardware division of Microsoft's quantum program. He was named a Technical Fellow in 2023.[11][12]
Research
Nayak has conducted pioneering research on topological phases of matter, which has laid the groundwork for the development of fault-tolerant quantum computation.[13] In collaboration with renowned physicist
Frank Wilczek in 1996, Nayak discovered the
non-Abelianstatistics associated with Majorana zero modes, a fundamental concept crucial for Microsoft's quantum computer architecture.[14]
In 2000, along with Sudip Chakravarty,
Bob Laughlin, and Dirk Morr, he proposed the concept of hidden order in high-temperature superconductors.
In 2005, Nayak, along with
Michael Freedman and
Sankar Das Sarma, initiated efforts to build a topological quantum computer utilizing the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state.[15][16]
In 2008, he authored a seminal article surveying the field of topological quantum computing.[17][18]
In 2016, Nayak, along with Dominic Else and Bela Bauer, revived the concept of "time crystals" and predicted their occurrence in periodically driven systems.[19]
Karzig, Torsten; Knapp, Christina; Lutchyn, Roman M.; Bonderson, Parsa; Hastings, Matthew B.; Nayak, Chetan; Alicea, Jason; Flensberg, Karsten; Plugge, Stephan; Oreg, Yuval; Marcus, Charles M.; Freedman, Michael H. (21 June 2017). "Scalable designs for quasiparticle-poisoning-protected topological quantum computation with Majorana zero modes". Physical Review B. 95 (23): 235305.
arXiv:1610.05289.
Bibcode:
2017PhRvB..95w5305K.
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevB.95.235305.
ISSN2469-9950.