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Topological holography is a holographic principle that describes the generalized global symmetry of a local quantum system in terms of a topological order in one higher dimension. This framework separates the topological data from the local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-02 Sheng-Jie Huang , Meng Cheng

We study generalized discrete symmetries of quantum field theories in 1+1D generated by topological defect lines with no inverse. In particular, we describe 't Hooft anomalies and classify gapped phases stabilized by these symmetries,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-06 Ryan Thorngren , Yifan Wang

Defects are a useful tool in the study of quantum field theories. This is illustrated in the example of two-dimensional conformal field theories. We describe how defect lines and their junction points appear in the description of symmetries…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jürg Fröhlich , Jürgen Fuchs , Ingo Runkel , Christoph Schweigert

Quantum information processing in the presence of continuous symmetry is of wide importance and exhibits many novel physical and mathematical phenomena. SU(d) is a continuous group of particular interest since it represents a fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Zimu Li , Han Zheng , Yunfei Wang , Liang Jiang , Zi-Wen Liu , Junyu Liu

We develop a method to deduce the symmetry properties of many-body Hamiltonians when they are prepared in Jordan-Wigner form for evaluation on quantum computers. Symmetries, such as point-group symmetries in molecules, are apparent in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Robert van Leeuwen

Unitary Modular Tensor Categories(UMTC) have a one-to-one correspondence with Topological Quantum Field Theories (TQFT). Different identifications have been made so far associating different physical particle types (anyons) to different…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Tushar Pandey

Topological quantum computation is an implementation of a quantum computer in a way that radically reduces decoherence. Topological qubits are encoded in the topological evolution of two-dimensional quasi-particles called anyons and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Mohamed Taha Rouabah

Topologically-ordered quantum states with Abelian excitations can host defects that obey effective non-Abelian statistics, in principle allowing for quantum information processing via defect braiding. These extrinsic defects (or twists) are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Paul Kairys , Phillip C. Lotshaw

In addition to possessing fractional statistics, anyon excitations of a 2D topologically ordered state can realize symmetry in distinct ways , leading to a variety of symmetry enriched topological (SET) phases. While the symmetry…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-28 Xie Chen , Fiona J. Burnell , Ashvin Vishwanath , Lukasz Fidkowski

In this paper, we explore topological quantum computation augmented by subphases and phase transitions. We commence by investigating the anyon tunneling map, denoted as $\varphi$, between subphases of the quantum double model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-06 Yuanjie Ren , Peter Shor

We study generalized symmetries of quantum field theories in 1+1D generated by topological defect lines with no inverse. This paper follows our companion paper on gapped phases and anomalies associated with these symmetries. In the present…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-25 Ryan Thorngren , Yifan Wang

We study effectively one-dimensional systems that emerge at the edge of a two-dimensional topologically ordered state, or at the boundary between two topologically ordered states. We argue that anyons of the bulk are associated with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-25 Tsuf Lichtman , Ryan Thorngren , Netanel H. Lindner , Ady Stern , Erez Berg

In this paper, we classify a type of abstract groups by the central products of dihedral groups and quaternion groups. We recognize them as abstract error groups which are often not isomorphic to the Pauli groups in the literature. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-04 Yong Zhang

Topological quantum computing has recently proven itself to be a very powerful model when considering large- scale, fully error corrected quantum architectures. In addition to its robust nature under hardware errors, it is a software driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Alexandru Paler , Simon J. Devitt , Kae Nemoto , Ilia Polian

Quantum algebras U_q(su_n) used as the algebras of flavour symmetry (usually described by SU(n)) to study static properties of hadrons lead to intriguing results. In this contribution we focus on the peculiar properties manifested by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. M. Gavrilik

Recent cold atom experiments have realized one-dimensional anyons and enabled the tuning of 1D~statistics between bosons and fermions. Here, we analyze the symmetries, integrability, and resulting degeneracies of the underlying…

The universal properties of (2 + 1)D topological phases of matter enriched by a symmetry group G are described by G-crossed extensions of unitary modular tensor categories (UMTCs). While the fusion and braiding properties of quasiparticles…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-12 Arman Babakhani , Parsa Bonderson

A topological defect separating a pair of two-dimensional CFTs is a codimension one interface along which all components of the stress-energy tensor glue continuously. We study topological defects of the bosonic, (0,1)- and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-01 Anton Kapustin , Kevin Setter

In category-theoretic models for the anyon systems proposed for topological quantum computing, the essential ingredients are two monoidal structures, $\oplus$ and $\otimes$. The former is symmetric but the latter is only braided, and…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-03-03 Andreas Blass , Yuri Gurevich

For non-abelian simple objects in a unitary modular category, the density of their braid group representations, the #P-hard evaluation of their associated link invariants, and the BQP-completeness of their anyonic quantum computing models…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2015-06-15 Matthew B. Hastings , Chetan Nayak , Zhenghan Wang
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