Qutrit Toric Code and Parafermions in Trapped Ions
Abstract
The development of programmable quantum devices can be measured by the complexity of manybody states that they are able to prepare. Among the most significant are topologically ordered states of matter, which enable robust quantum information storage and processing. While topological orders are more readily accessible with qudits, experimental realisations have thus far been limited to lattice models of qubits. Here, we prepare a ground state of the Z3 toric code state on 24 qutrits in a trapped ion quantum processor with fidelity per qutrit exceeding 96.5(3)%. We manipulate two types of defects which go beyond the conventional qubit toric code: a parafermion, and its bound state which is related to charge conjugation symmetry. We further demonstrate defect fusion and the transfer of entanglement between anyons and defects, which we use to control topological qutrits. Our work opens up the space of long-range entangled states with qudit degrees of freedom for use in quantum simulation and universal error-correcting codes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2411.04185,
title = {Qutrit Toric Code and Parafermions in Trapped Ions},
author = {Mohsin Iqbal and Anasuya Lyons and Chiu Fan Bowen Lo and Nathanan Tantivasadakarn and Joan Dreiling and Cameron Foltz and Thomas M. Gatterman and Dan Gresh and Nathan Hewitt and Craig A. Holliman and Jacob Johansen and Brian Neyenhuis and Yohei Matsuoka and Michael Mills and Steven A. Moses and Peter Siegfried and Ashvin Vishwanath and Ruben Verresen and Henrik Dreyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.04185},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
8+20 pages, 15 figures