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We present a constructive method utilizing the Cartan decomposition to characterize topological properties and their connection to two-qubit quantum entanglement, in the framework of the tenfold classification and Wootters' concurrence.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Nadav Orion , Eric Akkermans

The possibility of quantum computation using non-Abelian anyons has been considered for over a decade. However the question of how to obtain and process information about what errors have occurred in order to negate their effects has not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 James R. Wootton , Jan Burri , Sofyan Iblisdir , Daniel Loss

We provide a comprehensive systematic method for the numerical computation of elementary braid operations in topological quantum computation (TQC). This {procedure} is systematically applicable to all anyon models, including $SU(2)_k$.…

We construct parametrized isometric tensor network states -- referred to as skeletons -- that allow us to explore phases of abelian topological order and can be efficiently implemented on quantum processors. We obtain stable finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Julian Boesl , Yu-Jie Liu , Frank Pollmann , Michael Knap

Systems displaying quantum topological order feature robust characteristics that are very attractive to quantum computing schemes. Topological quantum field theories have proven to be powerful in capturing the quintessential attributes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 P. Vojta , G. Ortiz , Z. Nussinov

We address the problem of identifying a 2+1d topologically ordered phase using measurements on the ground-state wavefunction. For non-chiral topological order, we describe a series of bulk multipartite entanglement measures that extract the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-25 Yarden Sheffer , Ady Stern , Erez Berg

The Turaev-Viro invariant for a closed 3-manifold is defined as the contraction of a certain tensor network. The tensors correspond to tetrahedra in a triangulation of the manifold, with values determined by a fixed spherical category. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 Robert Koenig , Greg Kuperberg , Ben W. Reichardt

String-net models allow us to systematically construct and classify 2+1D topologically ordered states which can have gapped boundaries. We can use a simple ideal string-net wavefunction, which is described by a set of F-matrices [or more…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-27 Tian Lan , Xiao-Gang Wen

The Kitaev honeycomb model is an approximate topological quantum error correcting code in the same phase as the toric code, but requiring only a 2-body Hamiltonian. As a frustrated spin model, it is well outside the commuting models of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 Yi-Chan Lee , Courtney Brell , Steven T. Flammia

Exactly solvable models of topologically ordered phases with non-abelian anyons typically require complicated many-body interactions which do not naturally appear in nature. This motivates the "inverse problem" of quantum many-body physics:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Hans Peter Büchler , Tobias F. Maier , Simon Fell , Nicolai Lang

We introduce a set of axioms for locally topologically ordered quantum spin systems in terms of nets of local ground state projections, and we show they are satisfied by Kitaev's Toric Code and Levin-Wen type models. For a locally…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 Corey Jones , Pieter Naaijkens , David Penneys , Daniel Wallick

We consider a two-dimensional spin system that exhibits abelian anyonic excitations. Manipulations of these excitations enable the construction of a quantum computational model. While the one-qubit gates are performed dynamically the model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-28 Jiannis K. Pachos

We present a full quantum error correcting procedure with the semion code: an off-shell extension of the double semion model. We construct open strings operators that recover the quantum memory from arbitrary errors and closed string…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-31 Guillaume Dauphinais , Laura Ortiz , Santiago Varona , Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado

Cold-atom experiments in optical lattices offer a versatile platform to realize various topological quantum phases. A key challenge in those experiments is to unambiguously probe the topological order. We propose a method to directly…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-11-18 Dong-Ling Deng , Sheng-Tao Wang , Lu-Ming Duan

We present an approach to identify topological order based on unbiased infinite projected entangled-pair states (iPEPS) simulations, i.e. where we do not impose a virtual symmetry on the tensors during the optimization of the tensor network…

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We apply Bayesian optimization and reinforcement learning to a problem in topology: the question of when a knot bounds a ribbon disk. This question is relevant in an approach to disproving the four-dimensional smooth Poincar\'e conjecture;…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Sergei Gukov , James Halverson , Ciprian Manolescu , Fabian Ruehle

We propose a new theory to characterize equilibrium topological phase with non-equilibrium quantum dynamics by introducing the concept of high-order topological charges, with novel phenomena being predicted. Through a dimension reduction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-08-24 Wei Jia , Lin Zhang , Long Zhang , Xiong-Jun Liu

The anomaly of non-invertible higher-form symmetries is determined by the braiding of topological operators implementing them. In this paper, we study a method to classify braidings on topological line and surface operators by leveraging…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-19 Pavel Putrov , Rajath Radhakrishnan

Topological order (TO) provides a natural platform for storing and manipulating quantum information. However, its stability to noise has only been systematically understood for Abelian TOs. In this work, we exploit the non-deterministic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Dian Jing , Pablo Sala , Liang Jiang , Ruben Verresen

The exploration of topologically-ordered states of matter is a long-standing goal at the interface of several subfields of the physical sciences. Such states feature intriguing physical properties such as long-range entanglement, emergent…