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Non-Abelian topological order (TO) is a coveted state of matter with remarkable properties, including quasiparticles that can remember the sequence in which they are exchanged. These anyonic excitations are promising building blocks of…

The theory of quantum computation can be constructed from the abstract study of anyonic systems. In mathematical terms, these are unitary topological modular functors. They underlie the Jones polynomial and arise in Witten-Chern-Simons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael H. Freedman , Alexei Kitaev , Michael J. Larsen , Zhenghan Wang

A quantum computer can perform exponentially faster than its classical counterpart. It works on the principle of superposition. But due to the decoherence effect, the superposition of a quantum state gets destroyed by the interaction with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Muhammad Ilyas

In this article we present a pedagogical introduction of the main ideas and recent advances in the area of topological quantum computation. We give an overview of the concept of anyons and their exotic statistics, present various models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gavin K. Brennen , Jiannis K. Pachos

Low-dimensional quantum systems can host anyons, particles with exchange statistics that are neither bosonic nor fermionic. Despite indications of a wealth of exotic phenomena, the physics of anyons in one dimension (1D) remains largely…

The behavior of a collection of identical particles is intimately linked to the symmetries of their wavefunction under particle exchange. Topological anyons, arising as quasiparticles in low-dimensional systems, interpolate between bosons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Joe Dunlop , Álvaro Tejero , Michalis Skotiniotis , Daniel Manzano

Non-Abelian topological orders offer an intriguing path towards fault-tolerant quantum computation, where information can be encoded and manipulated in a topologically protected manner immune to arbitrary local noises and perturbations.…

Strongly correlated quantum systems can exhibit exotic behavior called topological order which is characterized by non-local correlations that depend on the system topology. Such systems can exhibit remarkable phenomena such as…

Particle statistics impose fundamental constraints on nonequilibrium quantum dynamics, yet it remains an open question whether anyonic statistics can lead to emergent dynamical scaling beyond the conventional Bose-Fermi paradigm. Here we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-24 Xu-Chen Yang , Botao Wang , Jianpeng Liu , Bing Yang , Jianmin Yuan , Yongqiang Li

The structure of quantum mechanics forbids a bipartite scenario for masking quantum information, however, it allows multipartite maskers. The Latin squares are found to be closely related to a series of tripartite maskers. This adds another…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Yao Shen , Wei-Min Shang , Chi-Chun Zhou , Fu-Lin Zhang

The emergence of non-Abelian anyons from large collections of interacting elementary particles is a conceptually beautiful phenomenon with important ramifications for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Over the last few decades the field has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-08 Jason Alicea , Ady Stern

Complex systems are embedded in our everyday experience. Stochastic modelling enables us to understand and predict the behaviour of such systems, cementing its utility across the quantitative sciences. Accurate models of highly…

In low-dimensional systems, indistinguishable particles can display statistics that interpolate between bosons and fermions. Signatures of these "anyons" have been detected in two-dimensional quasiparticle excitations of the fractional…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-15 Nathan M. Myers , Sebastian Deffner

In this paper, we develop a novel theory that generalizes the concept of anyon statistics to Abelian topological excitations of any dimension. We axiomatize excitations as a selected collection of states and operators satisfying the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Hanyu Xue

We review the general strategy of topologically protected quantum information processing based on non-Abelian anyons, in which quantum information is encoded into the fusion channels of pairs of anyons and in fusion paths for multi-anyon…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-02-17 Lachezar S. Georgiev

Topological quantum computation relies on control of non-Abelian anyons for inherently fault-tolerant storage and processing of quantum information. By now, blueprints for topological qubits are well developed for electrically active…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-14 Kai Klocke , Yue Liu , Gábor B. Halász , Jason Alicea

Harnessing non-abelian statistics of anyons to perform quantum computational tasks is getting closer to reality. While the existence of universal anyons by braiding alone such as the Fibonacci anyon is theoretically a possibility,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Shawn X. Cui , Seung-Moon Hong , Zhenghan Wang

The quantum-mechanical description of assemblies of particles whose motion is confined to two (or one) spatial dimensions offers many possibilities that are distinct from bosons and fermions. We call such particles anyons. The simplest…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-11-22 Martin Greiter , Frank Wilczek

Quantum graphs are commonly used as models of complex quantum systems, for example molecules, networks of wires, and states of condensed matter. We consider quantum statistics for indistinguishable spinless particles on a graph,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-11 JM Harrison , JP Keating , JM Robbins

Quantum computational models can be approached via the lens of resources needed to perform computational tasks, where a computational advantage is achieved by consuming specific forms of quantum resources, or, conversely, resource-free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Allan Tosta , Antônio C. Lourenço , Daniel Brod , Fernando Iemini , Tiago Debarba