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The 1-form symmetries in two-dimensional topological systems are ``shadowed'' as global symmetries in their one-dimensional quantum transfer matrices. In this work, we introduce a distinct shadow effect arising from the pair-creation of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-02-27 Yun-Tak Oh , Hyun-Yong Lee

Topological quantum computation encodes quantum information in the internal fusion space of non-Abelian anyonic quasiparticles, whose braiding implements logical gates. This goes beyond Abelian topological order (TO) such as the toric code,…

Topological quantum computation has recently emerged as one of the most exciting approaches to constructing a fault-tolerant quantum computer. The proposal relies on the existence of topological states of matter whose quasiparticle…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Chetan Nayak , Steven H. Simon , Ady Stern , Michael Freedman , Sankar Das Sarma

We introduce the Mixed-Integer Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming framework for the quantum compilation problem and apply it in the context of topological quantum computing. In this setting, quantum gates are realized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Pavel Rytir , Phillip C. Burke , Christos Aravanis , Jiri Vala , Jakub Marecek

We start with the consideration of fusion rules of anyonic particles evolving on a 2D surface and the a hypergroup comes with it to construct entangled quantum Markov chains. The fusion rules induce an association scheme with Krein…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Radhakrishnan Balu

On the basis of the principle that topological quantum phases arise from the scattering around space-time defects in higher dimensional unification, a geometric model is presented that associates with each quantum phase an element of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Kohler

Topological quantum computation employs two-dimensional quasiparticles called anyons. The generally accepted mathematical basis for the theory of anyons is the framework of modular tensor categories. That framework involves a substantial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-15 Andreas Blass , Yuri Gurevich

Topological quantum computing promises intrinsic fault tolerance by encoding quantum information in non-Abelian anyons, where quantum gates are implemented via braiding. While braiding operations are robust against local perturbations, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Themba Hodge , Philipp Frey , Stephan Rachel

Topological quantum computing holding global anti-interference ability is realized by braiding some anyons, such as well-known Fibonacci anyons. Here, based on $SO(3)_2 $ theory we obtain a total of 6 anyon models utilizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Jiangwei Long , Jianxin Zhong , Lijun Meng

This review presents an entry-level introduction to topological quantum computation -- quantum computing with anyons. We introduce anyons at the system-independent level of anyon models and discuss the key concepts of protected fusion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Ville Lahtinen , Jiannis K. Pachos

We provide a superselection theory of symmetry defects in 2+1D symmetry enriched topological (SET) order in the infinite volume setting. For a finite symmetry group $G$ with a unitary on-site action, our formalism produces a $G$-crossed…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Kyle Kawagoe , Siddharth Vadnerkar , Daniel Wallick

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

This is a systematic introduction for physicists to the theory of algebras and groups with braid statistics, as developed over the last three years by the author. There are braided lines, braided planes, braided matrices and braided groups…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Shahn Majid

We investigate a promising conformal field theory realization scheme for topological quantum computation based on the Fibonacci anyons, which are believed to be realized as quasiparticle excitations in the $\mathbb{Z}_3$ parafermion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Lachezar S. Georgiev , Ludmil Hadjiivanov , Grigori Matein

Topological quantum states of matter, both Abelian and non-Abelian, are characterized by excitations whose wavefunctions undergo non-trivial statistical transformations as one excitation is moved (braided) around another. Topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chuanwei Zhang , V. W. Scarola , Sumanta Tewari , S. Das Sarma

Boundary theories of static bulk topological phases of matter are obstructed in the sense that they cannot be realized on their own as isolated systems. The obstruction can be quantified/characterized by quantum anomalies, in particular…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-11-03 Yuhan Liu , Hassan Shapourian , Paolo Glorioso , Shinsei Ryu

We survey some recent work on topological quantum computation with gapped boundaries and boundary defects and list some open problems.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-20 Iris Cong , Zhenghan Wang

We show that non-abelian quantum statistics can be studied using certain topological invariants which are the homology groups of configuration spaces. In particular, we formulate a general framework for describing quantum statistics of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-11 Tomasz Maciążek , Adam Sawicki

In seminal work (arxiv:quant-ph/9707021) Alexei Kitaev proposed topological quantum computing (arXiv:cond-mat/0010440, arxiv:quant-ph/9707021, arXiv:quant-ph/0001108, arXiv:0707.1889), whereby logic gates of a quantum computer are conducted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Anasuya Lyons , Benjamin J. Brown