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Topological Quantum Computing with Only One Mobile Quasiparticle

Quantum Physics 2009-11-11 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In a topological quantum computer, universal quantum computation is performed by dragging quasiparticle excitations of certain two dimensional systems around each other to form braids of their world lines in 2+1 dimensional space-time. In this paper we show that any such quantum computation that can be done by braiding nn identical quasiparticles can also be done by moving a single quasiparticle around n-1 other identical quasiparticles whose positions remain fixed.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0509175,
  title  = {Topological Quantum Computing with Only One Mobile Quasiparticle},
  author = {S. H. Simon and N. E. Bonesteel and M. H. Freedman and N. Petrovic and L. Hormozi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0509175},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures