Topological phases and quantum computation
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2009-04-21 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
This is a collection of lecture notes from three lectures given by Alexei Kitaev at the 2008 Les Houches summer school "Exact methods in low-dimensional physics and quantum computing." They provide a pedagogical introduction to topological phenomena in 1-D superconductors and in the 2-D topological phases of the toric code and honeycomb model.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0904.2771,
title = {Topological phases and quantum computation},
author = {Alexei Kitaev and Chris Laumann},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.2771},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
31 pages. Lectures given by Alexei Kitaev at the 2008 Les Houches Summer School "Exact methods in low-dimensional physics and quantum computing"