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In a topological quantum computer, braids of non-Abelian anyons in a (2+1)-dimensional space-time form quantum gates, whose fault tolerance relies on the topological, rather than geometric, properties of the braids. Here we propose to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Haitan Xu , Xin Wan

In this paper we will present some ideas to use 3D topology for quantum computing extending ideas from a previous paper. Topological quantum computing used \textquotedblleft knotted\textquotedblright{} quantum states of topological phases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga

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 2022-09-28 Muhammad Ilyas , Shawn Cui , Marek Perkowski

Braiding defects in topological stabiliser codes has been widely studied as a promising approach to fault-tolerant quantum computing. We present a no-go theorem that places very strong limitations on the potential of such schemes for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Paul Webster , Stephen D. Bartlett

We propose an encoding for topological quantum computation utilizing quantum representations of mapping class groups. Leakage into a non-computational subspace seems to be unavoidable for universality in general. We are interested in the…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-12-26 Wade Bloomquist , Zhenghan Wang

This paper studies fault-tolerant quantum computation with gapped boundaries. We first introduce gapped boundaries of Kitaev's quantum double models for Dijkgraaf-Witten theories using their Hamiltonian realizations. We classify the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Iris Cong , Meng Cheng , Zhenghan Wang

In topological phases in $2+1$ dimensions, anyons fall into representations of quantum group symmetries. As proposed in our work (arXiv:1308.4673), physics of a symmetry enriched phase can be extracted by the Mathematics of (hidden) quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-16 Yuxiang Gu , Ling-Yan Hung , Yidun Wan

Unitary Ribbon Fusion Categories (URFC) formalize anyonic theories. It has been widely assumed that the same category formalizes a topological quantum computing model. However, in previous work, we addressed and resolved this confusion and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Fatimah Rita Ahmadi

Braiding defects in topological stabiliser codes has been widely studied as a promising approach to fault-tolerant quantum computing. Here, we explore the potential and limitations of such schemes in codes of all spatial dimensions. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Paul Webster , Stephen D. Bartlett

We consider two-dimensional (2d) quantum many-body systems with long-range orders, where the only gapless excitations in the spectrum are Goldstone modes of spontaneously broken continuous symmetries. To understand the interplay between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-09-30 Yan-Qi Wang , Chunxiao Liu , Yuan-Ming Lu

This is a comprehensive review on fault-tolerant topological quantum computation with the surface codes. The basic concepts and useful tools underlying fault-tolerant quantum computation, such as universal quantum computation, stabilizer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Keisuke Fujii

Defects between gapped boundaries provide a possible physical realization of projective non-abelian braid statistics. A notable example is the projective Majorana/parafermion braid statistics of boundary defects in fractional quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-22 Iris Cong , Meng Cheng , Zhenghan Wang

In a topological quantum computer, universality is achieved by braiding and quantum information is natively protected from small local errors. We address the problem of compiling single-qubit quantum operations into braid representations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vadym Kliuchnikov , Alex Bocharov , Krysta M. Svore

Three-dimensional Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory has the peculiar property that its one-form symmetry defects have non-trivial braiding, namely they are charged under the same symmetry they generate, which is then anomalous. This poses a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-07 Riccardo Argurio , Francesco Benini , Matteo Bertolini , Giovanni Galati , Pierluigi Niro

Despite the evident necessity of topological protection for realizing scalable quantum computers, the conceptual underpinnings of topological quantum logic gates had arguably remained shaky, both regarding their physical realization as well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 David Jaz Myers , Hisham Sati , Urs Schreiber

This expository article supplies the mathematical background underpinning the braid representation calculator introduced in arXiv:2212.00831; those representations describe the sets of logic gates available to a topological quantum computer…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Willie Aboumrad

We consider topological quantum memories for a general class of abelian anyon models defined on spin lattices. These are non-universal for quantum computation when restricting to topological operations alone, such as braiding and fusion.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-16 James R. Wootton , Jiannis K. Pachos

Defects on the toric code, a well-known exactly solvable Abelian anyon model, can exhibit non-Abelian statistical properties, which can be classified into punctures and twists. Benhemou et al.[Phys. Rev. A. 105, 042417 (2022)] introduced a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Yao Shen , Fu-Lin Zhang

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

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