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A method for compiling quantum algorithms into specific braiding patterns for non-Abelian quasiparticles described by the so-called Fibonacci anyon model is developed. The method is based on the observation that a universal set of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Hormozi , G. Zikos , N. E. Bonesteel , S. H. Simon

Majorana zero modes (MZMs) are non-Abelian excitations predicted to emerge at the edges of topological superconductors. One proposal for realizing a topological superconductor in one dimension involves a chain of spinless fermions, coupled…

Majorana-based topological qubits are expected to exploit the nonabelian braiding statistics of Majorana modes in topological superconductors to realize fault-tolerant topological quantum computation. Scalable qubit designs require several…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Pasquale Marra , Daisuke Inotani , Muneto Nitta

Braiding has attracted significant attention in physics because of its important role in describing the fundamental exchange of particles. Infusing the braiding with topological protection will make it robust against imperfections and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Xiao-Ming Wang , Jiaying Xu , Xulong Wang , Zhen Li , Guancong Ma

Non-Abelian quasiparticles have been predicted to exist in a variety of condensed matter systems. Their defining property is that an adiabatic braid between two of them results in a nontrivial change of the quantum state of the system. To…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-28 Jian Li , Titus Neupert , B. Andrei Bernevig , Ali Yazdani

The boundary of topological superconductors might lead to the appearance of Majorana edge modes, whose non-trivial exchange statistics can be used for topological quantum computing. In branched nanowire networks one can exchange Majorana…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-09 C. Tutschku , R. W. Reinthaler , C. Lei , A. H. MacDonald , E. M. Hankiewicz

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,…

After a decade of intense theoretical and experimental efforts, demonstrating braiding of Majorana modes remains an unsolved problem in condensed matter physics due to platform specific challenges. In this work, we propose topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Shiva T. Konakanchi , Jukka I. Väyrynen , Yong P. Chen , Pramey Upadhyaya , Leonid P. Rokhinson

Discrete time crystals have attracted considerable theoretical and experimental studies but their potential applications have remained unexplored. A particular type of discrete time crystals, termed "Majorana time crystals", is found to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Raditya Weda Bomantara , Jiangbin Gong

We develop the complete theory for non-Abelian braiding of Majorana Kramers' pairs (MKPs) in time-reversal (TR) invariant topological superconductors. By introducing an effective Hamiltonian approach to describe the braiding of MKPs, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-12-20 Pin Gao , Ying-Ping He , Xiong-Jun Liu

Non-semisimple extensions of the Ising anyon model developed in our previous work enable universal topological quantum computation via braiding alone, overcoming the Clifford-only limitation of semisimple theories. The non-semisimple theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Filippo Iulianelli , Sung Kim , Joshua Sussan , Aaron D. Lauda

Symmetry-protected topological superconductors (TSCs) can host multiple Majorana zero modes (MZMs) at their edges or vortex cores, while whether the Majorana braiding in such systems is non-Abelian in general remains an open question. Here…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-01-06 Jian-Song Hong , Ting-Fung Jeffrey Poon , Long Zhang , Xiong-Jun Liu

In a topological quantum computer, universality is achieved by braiding and quantum information is natively protected from small local errors. We address the problem of compiling single-qubit quantum operations into braid representations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Vadym Kliuchnikov , Alex Bocharov , Krysta M. Svore

The Kitaev chain model exhibits topological order that manifests as topological degeneracy, Majorana edge modes and $Z_{2}$ topological invariance of the abulk spectrum. This model can be obtained from a transverse field Ising model(TFIM)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-02-10 Rukhsan Ul Haq , Louis H Kauffman

Parafermions, which can be viewed as a fractionalized version of Majorana modes, exhibit profound non-Abelian statistics and emerge in topologically ordered systems, while their realization in experiment has been challenging. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Hong-Yu Wang , Xiong-Jun Liu

Braiding defects in topological stabiliser codes has been widely studied as a promising approach to fault-tolerant quantum computing. Here, we explore the potential and limitations of such schemes in codes of all spatial dimensions. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 Paul Webster , Stephen D. Bartlett

Topological superconductors (TSCs) provide a promising route to fault-tolerant quantum information processing. However, the canonical Majorana platform based on $2e$ TSCs remains computationally constrained. In this work, we find a $4e$ TSC…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-31 Zhengyan Darius Shi , Zhaoyu Han , Srinivas Raghu , Ashvin Vishwanath

The realization of quantum gates in topological quantum computation still confronts significant challenges in both fundamental and practical aspects. Here, we propose a deterministic and fully topologically protected measurement-based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 Su-Qi Zhang , Jian-Song Hong , Yuan Xue , Xun-Jiang Luo , Li-Wei Yu , Xiong-Jun Liu , Xin Liu

Topological quantum computations can be implemented with local Majorana zero modes. To simplify manipulations, one can use Majorana edge states in gapped two-dimensional systems. Here we demonstrate how this approach can be used for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Igor Timoshuk , Yuriy Makhlin

In a topological quantum computer, braids of non-Abelian anyons in a (2+1)-dimensional space-time form quantum gates, whose fault tolerance relies on the topological, rather than geometric, properties of the braids. Here we propose to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Haitan Xu , Xin Wan