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Anyons, quasiparticles living in two-dimensional spaces with exotic exchange statistics, can serve as the fundamental units for fault-tolerant quantum computation. However, experimentally demonstrating anyonic statistics is a challenge due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Annie Jihyun Park , Emma McKay , Dawei Lu , Raymond Laflamme

Topological quantum error correction based on the manipulation of the anyonic defects constitutes one of the most promising frameworks towards realizing fault-tolerant quantum devices. Hence, it is crucial to understand how these defects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Julio C. Magdalena de la Fuente , Jens Eisert , Andreas Bauer

In this article we present a pedagogical introduction of the main ideas and recent advances in the area of topological quantum computation. We give an overview of the concept of anyons and their exotic statistics, present various models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gavin K. Brennen , Jiannis K. Pachos

The charged anyons of a fractional quantum Hall fluid are necessarily dispersionless due to the continuous magnetic translation symmetry. Neutral anyons, however, can disperse, resulting in a much richer space of possible ``daughter''…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-22 Zhaoyu Han , Taige Wang , Zhihuan Dong , Michael P. Zaletel , Ashvin Vishwanath

Induced interactions and bound states of charge carriers immersed in a quantum medium are crucial for the investigation of quantum transport. Ultracold atom-ion systems can provide a convenient platform for studying this problem. Here, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-03-29 G. E. Astrakharchik , L. A. Peña Ardila , K. Jachymski , A. Negretti

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 present and analyze a protocol in which polaritons in a noncoplanar optical cavity form fractional quantum Hall states. We model the formation of these states and present techniques for subsequently creating anyons and measuring their…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-16 Shovan Dutta , Erich J. Mueller

We describe the mathematical theory of topological quantum computing with symmetry defects in the language of fusion categories and unitary representations. Symmetry defects together with anyons are modeled by G-crossed braided extensions…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Colleen Delaney , Zhenghan Wang

An exotic feature of the fractional quantum Hall effect is the emergence of anyons, which are quasiparticle excitations with fractional statistics. In the presence of a symmetry, such as $U(1)$ charge conservation, it is well known that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-03-31 Yuan-Ming Lu , Lukasz Fidkowski

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

In this paper, we report on the study of Abelian and non-Abelian statistics through Fabry-Perot interferometry of fractional quantum Hall (FQH) systems. Our detection of phase slips in quantum interference experiments demonstrates a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-16 Sanghun An , P. Jiang , H. Choi , W. Kang , S. H. Simon , L. N. Pfeiffer , K. W. West , K. W. Baldwin

Advancing our understanding of non-equilibrium phenomena in quantum many-body systems remains among the greatest challenges in physics. Here, we report on the experimental observation of a paradigmatic many-body problem, namely the…

A key property of topologically ordered systems, such as Quantum Hall states, is the existence of excitations obeying fractional quantum statistics - anyons. We develop a theory for multicomponent counterflow states where an ordinary…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-18 Jun-Xiao Hui , T. H. Hansson , Egor Babaev

We consider a bilayer geometry where a single impurity moves in a two-dimensional plane and is coupled, via dipolar interactions, to a two-dimensional system of fermions residing in the second layer. Dipoles in both layers point in the same…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 Natalia Matveeva , Stefano Giorgini

We study a quantum impurity coupled to the edge states of a two-dimensional helical topological superconductor, i.e., to a pair of counterpropagating Majorana fermion edge channels with opposite spin polarizations. For an impurity described…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-15 Rok Zitko , Pascal Simon

The anyon exciton model is generalized to the case of a neutral exciton consisting of a valence hole and an arbitrary number N of fractionally-charged quasielectrons (anyons). A complete set of exciton basis functions is obtained and these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. G. W. Parfitt , M. E. Portnoi

We spectroscopically study mobile impurities immersed in a homogeneous bosonic bath (a box-trapped Bose gas), varying the bath temperature and the strength of impurity-bath interactions. We compare our results to those for a quasipure…

In several settings of physics and chemistry one has to deal with molecules interacting with some kind of an external environment, be it a gas, a solution, or a crystal surface. Understanding molecular processes in the presence of such a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-04-06 Mikhail Lemeshko , Richard Schmidt

The polaronic system consisting of an impurity in a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate is considered in the presence of a narrow Feshbach resonance. For this purpose a coupled-channel model is used, which at the mean field level predicts the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2014-07-04 Wim Casteels , Michiel Wouters

Anyons exhibit a non-trivial interplay between local exclusion rules and non-local braiding and exchange phases, making a consistent commutation algebra and second-quantized formulation challenging. We develop an algebraic framework for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-07 Priyanshi Bhasin , Diptiman Sen , Tanmoy Das