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Press coverage

Selected quotes for journalists/Media coverage

Statement for Physics World on prospects for “poor man’s Majoranas”

Henry Legg, a theorist at the University of Basel, Switzerland… says it is nice to see new device fabrication on new platforms. However, he suggests… that the result has no proven relevance to the ultimate goal of a true MBS. The main challenge in this field, he says, is to overcome the impact of disorder, and it is not clear that producing a true Kitaev chain from these building blocks will do that.

Coverage by MIT technology review of panel on reproducibility:

During a panel, physicist Henry Legg of the University of Basel in Switzerland called out the journal Physical Review B for publishing a paper on a quantum computing device by Microsoft researchers that, for intellectual-property reasons, omitted information required for reproducibility.

Coverage of Microsoft Quantum’s “topological gap protocol” in New Scientist:

Not all researchers in the field are convinced. Henry Legg at the University of Basel in Switzerland and his colleagues recently published a set of calculations showing that this test can be fooled by impurities in the wires. “The topological gap protocol as currently implemented is certainly not loophole free,” he says.

Online talks

International Conference on Reproducibility in Condensed Matter Physics, Pittsburgh, May 2024

Panel on reproducibility and integrity in Natural Sciences, Pittsburgh, May 2024

Random

Evidence of what happens when theorists end up in the lab: Watch Henry Legg help find a needle in a haystack using 35 Tesla fields (in French).