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Fracton topological phases host fractionalized topological quasiparticles with restricted mobility, with promising applications to fault-tolerant quantum computation. While a variety of exactly solvable fracton models have been proposed,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-21 Yizhi You , Felix von Oppen

While there is a general consensus about the structure of one qubit operations in topological quantum computer, two qubits are as usual a more difficult and complex story of different attempts with varying approaches, problems and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Sergey Mironov , Andrey Morozov

Majorana fermions (MFs) are exotic particles that are their own anti-particles. Recently, the search for the MFs occurring as quasi-particle excitations in solid-state systems has attracted widespread interest, because of their fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-22 Jun Li , Ting Yu , Hai-Qing Lin , J. Q. You

Topological quantum phases of matter are characterized by an intimate relationship between the Hamiltonian dynamics away from the edges and the appearance of bound states localized at the edges of the system. Elucidating this correspondence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Mostafa Tanhayi Ahari , Gerardo Ortiz , Babak Seradjeh

The non-Abelian braiding of Majorana fermions is one of the most promising operations providing a key building block for the realization of topological quantum computation. Recently, the chiral Majorana fermions were observed in a hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Yan-Feng Zhou , Zhe Hou , Qing-Feng Sun

Topological superfluid, new quantum matter that possesses gapless exotic excitations known as Majorana fermions, has attracted extensive attention recently. These excitations, which can encode topological qubits, could be crucial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-01-18 Liang-Liang Wang , Wu-Ming Liu

We investigate the ability of selective cavity coupling to a topological chain for tailoring the connectivity of Majorana fermions. We show how topological qubits (TQs), associated with non-local Majorana fermion pairing, can be moved from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 F. P. M. Méndez-Córdoba , F. J. Rodríguez , C. Tejedor , L. Quiroga

One of the principal obstacles on the way to quantum computers is the lack of distinguished basis in the space of unitary evolutions and thus the lack of the commonly accepted set of basic operations (universal gates). A natural choice,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-13 D. Melnikov , A. Mironov , S. Mironov , A. Morozov , An. Morozov

The deep connection among braids, knots and topological physics has provided valuable insights into studying topological states in various physical systems. However, identifying distinct braid groups and knot topology embedded in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Jiangzhi Chen , Zi Wang , Yu-Tao Tan , Ce Wang , Jie Ren

Quantum information protected by the topology of the storage medium is expected to exhibit long coherence times. Another feature are topologically protected gates generated through braiding of Majorana bound states. However, braiding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-16 Stephan Plugge , Asbjørn Rasmussen , Reinhold Egger , Karsten Flensberg

Abelian Chern-Simons theory relates classical theta functions to the topological quantum field theory of the linking number of knots. In this paper we explain how to derive the constructs of abelian Chern-Simons theory directly from the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-07-28 Razvan Gelca , Alejandro Uribe

The key obstacle to the realization of a scalable quantum computer is overcoming environmental and control errors. Topological quantum computation has attracted great attention because it has emerged as one of the most promising approaches…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Deyuan Zou , Naiqiao Pan , Tian Chen , Houjun Sun , Xiangdong Zhang

Topological quantum computation (TQC) is one of the most striking architectures that can realize fault-tolerant quantum computers. In TQC, the logical space and the quantum gates are topologically protected, i.e., robust against local…

We propose a realization of the one-dimensional Kitaev topological superconductor in classical mechanical metamaterials. By designing appropriate braiding protocols, we demonstrate that the system's mid-gap vibrational modes, termed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-15 Liyuan Chen , Matthew Fuertes , Bolei Deng

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. H. Simon , N. E. Bonesteel , M. H. Freedman , N. Petrovic , L. Hormozi

This paper discusses relationships between topological entanglement and quantum entanglement. Specifically, we propose that for this comparison it is fundamental to view topological entanglements such as braids as "entanglement operators"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Louis H. Kauffman , Samuel J. Lomonaco

Recently, Majorana's spirit returns to modern condensed matter physics -- in the context of topological Majorana zero mode that represents a local half degree of freedom carrying non-Abelian statistics.In this paper, we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-08 Zheng-Cheng Gu

This paper introduces a new algebra, the crossing algebra, that is applied to count the number of components for arborescent knots, links, tangles or states (of a state polynomial expansion such as the Kauffman bracket). This algebra is…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Louis H Kauffman

We study various aspects of the topological quantum computation scheme based on the non-Abelian anyons corresponding to fractional quantum hall effect states at filling fraction 5/2 using the Temperley-Lieb recoupling theory. Unitary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zheyong Fan , Hugo de Garis

Interacting fermions on a lattice can develop strong quantum correlations, which lie at the heart of the classical intractability of many exotic phases of matter. Seminal efforts are underway in the control of artificial quantum systems,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-16 T. Hensgens , T. Fujita , L. Janssen , Xiao Li , C. J. Van Diepen , C. Reichl , W. Wegscheider , S. Das Sarma , L. M. K. Vandersypen