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We define Homotopy quantum field theories (HQFT) as Topological quantum field theories (TQFT) for manifolds endowed with extra structure in the form of a map into some background space X. We also build the category of homotopy cobordisms…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. Rodrigues

Starting from a Lie group G whose Lie algebra is equipped with an invariant nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form, we show that 4-dimensional BF theory with cosmological term gives rise to a TQFT satisfying a generalization of Atiyah's…

q-alg · Mathematics 2009-10-28 John C. Baez

At long distances, a gapped phase of matter is described by a topological quantum field theory (TQFT). We conjecture a tight and concrete relationship between the genuine $(d+1)$-partite entanglement -- labelled by a $d$-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-20 Michele Del Zotto , Abhijit Gadde , Pavel Putrov

Symmetry topological field theory (SymTFT), or topological holography, offers a unifying framework for describing quantum phases of matter and phase transitions between them. While this approach has seen remarkable success in describing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-03 Marvin Qi , Ramanjit Sohal , Xie Chen , David T. Stephen , Abhinav Prem

We show that a vector space valued TQFT constructed in work of De Renzi et al. [DGGPR23] extends naturally to a topological field theory which takes values in the symmetric monoidal category of linear cochains. Specifically, we consider a…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Agustina Czenky , Cris Negron

We define a symmetric monoidal (4,3)-category with duals whose objects are certain enriched multi-fusion categories. For every modular tensor category $\mathcal{C}$, there is a self enriched multi-fusion category $\mathfrak{C}$ giving rise…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2017-04-21 Hao Zheng

We define a (3+1)-TQFT associated with possibly non-semisimple finite unimodular ribbon tensor categories using skein theory. This gives an explicit realization of a TQFT predicted by the cobordism hypothesis, based on recent results on…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Francesco Costantino , Nathan Geer , Benjamin Haïoun , Bertrand Patureau Mirand

In this paper, we consider the local unitary classification of the class of qudit bipartite mixed states for which no information can be obtained locally. These states are represented by symmetrical density matrices in which both tracial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-25 Constantino Rodriguez-Ramos , Colin M. Wilmott

We present commuting projector Hamiltonian realizations of a large class of (3+1)D topological models based on mathematical objects called unitary G-crossed braided fusion categories. This construction comes with a wealth of examples from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-08 Dominic J. Williamson , Zhenghan Wang

We construct 3-dimensional once-Extended Topological Quantum Field Theories (ETQFTs for short) out of (possibly non-semisimple) modular categories, and we explicitly identify linear categories and functors in their image. The circle…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Marco De Renzi

Quantum computers will work by evolving a high tensor power of a small (e.g. two) dimensional Hilbert space by local gates, which can be implemented by applying a local Hamiltonian H for a time t. In contrast to this quantum engineering,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Michael H. Freedman , Alexei Kitaev , Zhenghan Wang

A shaped triangulation is a finite triangulation of an oriented pseudo three manifold where each tetrahedron carries dihedral angles of an ideal hyberbolic tetrahedron. To each shaped triangulation, we associate a quantum partition function…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2012-11-01 Rinat Kashaev , Feng Luo , Grigory Vartanov

This paper contains three related groupings of results. First, we consider a new notion of an admissible skein module of a surface associated to an ideal in a (non-semisimple) pivotal category. Second, we introduce the notion of a chromatic…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-04-18 Francesco Costantino , Nathan Geer , Bertrand Patureau-Mirand , Alexis Virelizier

In this paper, we begin constructing a new finite-dimensional topological quantum field theory (TQFT) for three-manifolds, based on group PSL(2,C) and its action on a complex variable by fractional-linear transformations, by providing its…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2008-09-25 Rinat Kashaev , Igor Korepanov , Evgeniy Martyushev

Molecular spin qudits based on lanthanide complexes offer a promising platform for quantum technologies, combining chemical tunability with multi-level encoding. However, experimental demonstrations of their envisaged capabilities remain…

We study Quot schemes of vector bundles on algebraic curves. Marian and Oprea gave a description of a topological quantum field theory (TQFT) studied by Witten in terms of intersection numbers on Quot schemes of trivial bundles. Since these…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2019-07-19 Thomas Goller

This paper gives a definition of an extended topological quantum field theory (TQFT) as a weak 2-functor Z: nCob_2 -> 2Vect, by analogy with the description of a TQFT as a functor Z: nCob -> Vect. We also show how to obtain such a theory…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-10-02 Jeffrey Morton

To each local field, Garoufalidis and Kashaev recently associate a quantum dilogarithm that satisfies a pentagon identity and some symmetries. By employing an angled version of these quantum dilogarithms, they developed three generalized…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-03-05 Honghuai Fang

We use modified traces to renormalize Lyubashenko's closed 3-manifold invariants coming from twist non-degenerate finite unimodular ribbon categories. Our construction produces new topological invariants which we upgrade to 2+1-TQFTs under…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Marco De Renzi , Azat M. Gainutdinov , Nathan Geer , Bertrand Patureau-Mirand , Ingo Runkel

Quantum Fourier transform (QFT) is a key ingredient of many quantum algorithms where a considerable amount of ancilla qubits and gates are often needed to form a Hilbert space large enough for high-precision results. Qubit recycling reduces…