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We remove the need to physically transport computational anyons around each other from the implementation of computational gates in topological quantum computing. By using an anyonic analog of quantum state teleportation, we show how the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-21 Parsa Bonderson , Michael Freedman , Chetan Nayak

In a standard interferometry experiment, one measures the phase difference between two paths by recombining the two wave packets on a beam-splitter. However, it has been recently recognized that the phase can also be estimated via local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Sebastian Horvat , Philippe Allard Guerin , Luca Apadula , Flavio Del Santo

Identifying experimental signatures of anyons, which exhibit fractional exchange statistics, remains a central challenge in the study of two-dimensional topologically ordered systems. Previous theoretical work has shown that the threshold…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-24 Nico Kirchner , Wonjune Choi , Frank Pollmann

We study the best attainable measurement precision when a double-well trap with bosons inside acts as an interferometer to measure the energy difference of the atoms on the two sides of the trap. We introduce time independent perturbation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-12 Juha Javanainen , Han Chen

Studies on experimental realization of two-dimensional anyons in terms of quasiparticles have been restricted, so far, to only anyons on the plane. It is known, however, that the geometry and topology of space can have significant effects…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-12 Morris Brooks , Mikhail Lemeshko , Douglas Lundholm , Enderalp Yakaboylu

The topological order of a (2+1)D topological phase of matter is characterized by its chiral central charge and a unitary modular tensor category that describes the universal fusion and braiding properties of its anyonic quasiparticles. I…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-04 Parsa Bonderson

Interferometric photon-correlation measurements, which correspond to the second-order intensity cross-correlations between the two output ports of an unbalanced Michelson interferometer, are sensitive to both amplitude and phase…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-15 A. Lebreton , I. Abram , R. Braive , I. Sagnes , I. Robert-Philip , A. Beveratos

Anyons are low-dimensional quasiparticles that obey fractional statistics, hence interpolating between bosons and fermions. In two dimensions, they exist as elementary excitations of fractional quantum Hall states and they are believed to…

Cold-atom interferometry is a powerful tool for high-precision measurements of the quantum properties of atoms, many-body interactions and gravity. Further enhancement of sensitivity and reduction of complexity of these devices are crucial…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-02-23 Jovana Petrovic , Ivan Herrera , Pietro Lombardi , Francesco S. Cataliotti

We study nonlinear interferometry applied to a measurement of atomic spin and demonstrate a sensitivity that cannot be achieved by any linear-optical measurement with the same experimental resources. We use alignment-to-orientation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 R. J. Sewell , M. Napolitano , N. Behbood , G. Colangelo , F. Martin Ciurana , M. W. Mitchell

Interferometers provide a highly sensitive means to investigate and exploit the coherence properties of light in metrology applications. However, interferometers come in various forms and exploit different properties of the optical states…

Anyonic system not only has potential applications in the construction of topological quantum computer, but also presents a unique property known as topological entanglement entropy in quantum many-body systems. How to understand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Cheng-Qian Xu , D. L. Zhou

In astronomy, interferometry of light collected by separate telescopes is often performed by physically bringing the optical paths together in the form of Young's double-slit experiment. Optical loss severely limits the efficiency of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-30 Mankei Tsang

The fractionally charged quasiparticles appearing in the 5/2 fractional quantum Hall plateau are predicted to have an extra non-local degree of freedom, known as topological charge. We show how this topological charge can block the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-22 B. van Heck , M. Burrello , A. Yacoby , A. R. Akhmerov

We analyze the operation of a novel sensor based on atom interferometry, which can achieve supra-classical sensitivity by exploiting quantum correlations in mixed states of many qubits. The interferometer is based on quantum gates which use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Calum MacCormick , Silvia Bergamini , Chris Mansell , Hugo Cable , Kavan Modi

Exchange statistics are a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics, dictating the symmetry of identical particle wavefunctions and thereby enabling emergent phenomena of many-body quantum states. The exchange-induced unitary…

Topological phases in two dimensions support anyonic quasiparticle excitations that obey neither bosonic nor fermionic statistics. These anyon structures often carry global symmetries that relate distinct anyons with similar fusion and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-03-09 Jeffrey C. Y. Teo

Measurements in many-body quantum systems can generate non-trivial phenomena, such as preparation of long-range entangled states, dynamical phase transitions, or measurement-altered criticality. Here, we introduce a new measurement scheme…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Alexey Milekhin , Sara Murciano

Anyon models are algebraic structures that model universal topological properties in topological phases of matter and can be regarded as mathematical characterization of topological order in two spacial dimensions. It is conjectured that…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2020-12-30 Liang Wang , Zhenghan Wang

Given a closed orientable surface (\Sigma) of genus at least two, we establish an affine isomorphism between the convex compact set of isotopy-invariant topological measures on (\Sigma) and the convex compact set of additive functions on…

General Topology · Mathematics 2009-03-17 Frol Zapolsky