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Topological quantum computation provides an elegant way around decoherence, as one encodes quantum information in a non-local fashion that the environment finds difficult to corrupt. Here we establish that one of the key…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jason Alicea , Yuval Oreg , Gil Refael , Felix von Oppen , Matthew P. A. Fisher

The fusion basis of Fibonacci anyons supports unitary braid representations that can be utilized for universal quantum computation. We show a mapping between the fusion basis of three Fibonacci anyons, $\{|1\rangle, |\tau\rangle\}$, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 Vivek Kumar Singh , Akash Sinha , Pramod Padmanabhan , Indrajit Jana

Topological quantum computation by way of braiding of Majorana fermions is not universal quantum computation. There are several attempts to make universal quantum computation by introducing some additional quantum gates or quantum states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Motohiko Ezawa

Topological quantum computation with Fibonacci anyons relies on the possibility of efficiently generating unitary transformations upon pseudoparticles braiding. The crucial fact that such set of braids has a dense image in the unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Remy Mosseri

The emergence of non-Abelian anyons from large collections of interacting elementary particles is a conceptually beautiful phenomenon with important ramifications for fault-tolerant quantum computing. Over the last few decades the field has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-08 Jason Alicea , Ady Stern

Topological quantum computers provide a fault-tolerant method for performing quantum computation. Topological quantum computers manipulate topological defects with exotic exchange statistics called anyons. The simplest anyon model for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Yuanye Zhu

We study the implementation of a universal quantum gate set via multiple-braiding within $SU(2)_k$ ($k > 2$, $k \neq 4$) anyon models. The multiple elementary braiding matrices (MEBMs) are derived from the $q$-deformed representation theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Jiangwei Long , Zihui Liu , Yizhi Li , Jianxin Zhong , Lijun Meng

Boundary conformal field theory is brought to bear on the study of topological insulating phases of non-abelian anyonic chains. These topologically non-trivial phases display protected anyonic end modes. We consider antiferromagnetically…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-25 Wade DeGottardi

Fibonacci anyons are non-Abelian particles for which braiding is universal for quantum computation. Reichardt has shown how to systematically generate nontrivial braids for three Fibonacci anyons which yield unitary operations with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Caitlin Carnahan , Daniel Zeuch , N. E. Bonesteel

The simulation of non-Abelian anyon braiding is a critical step towards fault-tolerant quantum computation. We introduce a framework for this task based on a one-dimensional Quasicrystal Inflation Code (QIC). The code is defined by a local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Marcelo M. Amaral

Qubits in topological quantum computation are built from non-Abelian anyons. Adiabatic braiding of anyons is exploited as topologically protected logical gate operations. Thus, the adiabaticity upon which the notion of quantum statistics is…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-10-06 Meng Cheng , Victor Galitski , Sankar Das Sarma

Recent demonstrations of non-Abelian braiding of graph vertices on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) superconducting processor, and the experimental realization of topological order in general on various quantum hardware platforms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Babatunde Moses Ayeni

Harnessing non-abelian statistics of anyons to perform quantum computational tasks is getting closer to reality. While the existence of universal anyons by braiding alone such as the Fibonacci anyon is theoretically a possibility,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-20 Shawn X. Cui , Seung-Moon Hong , Zhenghan Wang

Topological quantum computation (TQC) is one of the most striking architectures that can realize fault-tolerant quantum computers. In TQC, the logical space and the quantum gates are topologically protected, i.e., robust against local…

Quantum compiling, which aims to approximate target qubit gates by finding optimal sequences (braidwords) of basic braid operations, constitutes a fundamental challenge in quantum computing. We develop a genetic algorithm (GA)-enhanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jiangwei Long , Xuyang Huang , Jianxin Zhong , Lijun Meng

Fibonacci anyons provide the simplest possible model of non-Abelian fusion rules: [1] x [1] = [0] + [1]. We propose a conformal field theory construction of topological quantum registers based on Fibonacci anyons realized as quasiparticle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-20 Ludmil Hadjiivanov , Lachezar S. Georgiev

We introduce a pentagon equation solver, available as part of SageMath, and use it to construct braid group representations associated to certain anyon systems. We recall the category-theoretic framework for topological quantum computation…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Willie Aboumrad

Indistinguishability of particles is a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics. For all elementary and quasiparticles observed to date - including fermions, bosons, and Abelian anyons - this principle guarantees that the braiding of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-02 Trond I. Andersen , Yuri D. Lensky , Kostyantyn Kechedzhi , Ilya Drozdov , Andreas Bengtsson , Sabrina Hong , Alexis Morvan , Xiao Mi , Alex Opremcak , Rajeev Acharya , Richard Allen , Markus Ansmann , Frank Arute , Kunal Arya , Abraham Asfaw , Juan Atalaya , Ryan Babbush , Dave Bacon , Joseph C. Bardin , Gina Bortoli , Alexandre Bourassa , Jenna Bovaird , Leon Brill , Michael Broughton , Bob B. Buckley , David A. Buell , Tim Burger , Brian Burkett , Nicholas Bushnell , Zijun Chen , Ben Chiaro , Desmond Chik , Charina Chou , Josh Cogan , Roberto Collins , Paul Conner , William Courtney , Alexander L. Crook , Ben Curtin , Dripto M. Debroy , Alexander Del Toro Barba , Sean Demura , Andrew Dunsworth , Daniel Eppens , Catherine Erickson , Lara Faoro , Edward Farhi , Reza Fatemi , Vinicius S. Ferreira , Leslie Flores Burgos , Ebrahim Forati , Austin G. Fowler , Brooks Foxen , William Giang , Craig Gidney , Dar Gilboa , Marissa Giustina , Raja Gosula , Alejandro Grajales Dau , Jonathan A. Gross , Steve Habegger , Michael C. Hamilton , Monica Hansen , Matthew P. Harrigan , Sean D. Harrington , Paula Heu , Jeremy Hilton , Markus R. Hoffmann , Trent Huang , Ashley Huff , William J. Huggins , Lev B. Ioffe , Sergei V. Isakov , Justin Iveland , Evan Jeffrey , Zhang Jiang , Cody Jones , Pavol Juhas , Dvir Kafri , Tanuj Khattar , Mostafa Khezri , Mária Kieferová , Seon Kim , Alexei Kitaev , Paul V. Klimov , Andrey R. Klots , Alexander N. Korotkov , Fedor Kostritsa , John Mark Kreikebaum , David Landhuis , Pavel Laptev , Kim-Ming Lau , Lily Laws , Joonho Lee , Kenny Lee , Brian J. Lester , Alexander Lill , Wayne Liu , Aditya Locharla , Erik Lucero , Fionn D. Malone , Orion Martin , Jarrod R. McClean , Trevor McCourt , Matt McEwen , Kevin C. Miao , Amanda Mieszala , Masoud Mohseni , Shirin Montazeri , Emily Mount , Ramis Movassagh , Wojciech Mruczkiewicz , Ofer Naaman , Matthew Neeley , Charles Neill , Ani Nersisyan , Michael Newman , Jiun How Ng , Anthony Nguyen , Murray Nguyen , Murphy Yuezhen Niu , Thomas E. O'Brien , Seun Omonije , Andre Petukhov , Rebecca Potter , Leonid P. Pryadko , Chris Quintana , Charles Rocque , Nicholas C. Rubin , Negar Saei , Daniel Sank , Kannan Sankaragomathi , Kevin J. Satzinger , Henry F. Schurkus , Christopher Schuster , Michael J. Shearn , Aaron Shorter , Noah Shutty , Vladimir Shvarts , Jindra Skruzny , W. Clarke Smith , Rolando Somma , George Sterling , Doug Strain , Marco Szalay , Alfredo Torres , Guifre Vidal , Benjamin Villalonga , Catherine Vollgraff Heidweiller , Theodore White , Bryan W. K. Woo , Cheng Xing , Z. Jamie Yao , Ping Yeh , Juhwan Yoo , Grayson Young , Adam Zalcman , Yaxing Zhang , Ningfeng Zhu , Nicholas Zobrist , Hartmut Neven , Sergio Boixo , Anthony Megrant , Julian Kelly , Yu Chen , Vadim Smelyanskiy , Eun-Ah Kim , Igor Aleiner , Pedram Roushan

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,…

A great part of the mathematical foundations of topological quantum computation is given by the theory of modular categories which provides a description of the topological phases of matter such as anyon systems. In the near future the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Juan Ospina