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This Letter discusses topological quantum computation with gapped boundaries of two-dimensional topological phases. Systematic methods are presented to encode quantum information topologically using gapped boundaries, and to perform…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-08 Iris Cong , Meng Cheng , Zhenghan Wang

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 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

In a topological quantum computer, universal quantum computation is performed by dragging quasiparticle excitations of certain two dimensional systems around each other to form braids of their world lines in 2+1 dimensional space-time. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. H. Simon , N. E. Bonesteel , M. H. Freedman , N. Petrovic , L. Hormozi

Topological quantum computing promises intrinsic fault tolerance by encoding quantum information in non-Abelian anyons, where quantum gates are implemented via braiding. While braiding operations are robust against local perturbations, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Themba Hodge , Philipp Frey , Stephan Rachel

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

We show that braidings of the metaplectic anyons $X_\epsilon$ in $SO(3)_2=SU(2)_4$ with their total charge equal to the metaplectic mode $Y$ supplemented with measurements of the total charge of two metaplectic anyons are universal for…

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

We study the problem of universality in the anyon model described by the $SU(2)$ Witten-Chern-Simons theory at level $k$. A classic theorem of Freedman-Larsen-Wang states that for $k \geq 3, \ k \neq 4$, braiding of the anyons of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Adrian L. Kaufmann , Shawn X. Cui

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…

In seminal work (arxiv:quant-ph/9707021) Alexei Kitaev proposed topological quantum computing (arXiv:cond-mat/0010440, arxiv:quant-ph/9707021, arXiv:quant-ph/0001108, arXiv:0707.1889), whereby logic gates of a quantum computer are conducted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Anasuya Lyons , Benjamin J. Brown

We remove the need to physically transport computational anyons around each other from the implementation of computational gates in topological quantum computing. By using an anyonic analog of quantum state teleportation, we show how the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-21 Parsa Bonderson , Michael Freedman , Chetan Nayak

We consider topological quantum computation (TQC) with a particular class of anyons that are believed to exist in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect state at Landau level filling fraction nu=5/2. Since the braid group representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sergey Bravyi

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

Anyons are particles obeying statistics of neither bosons nor fermions. Non-Abelian anyons, whose exchanges are described by a non-Abelian group acting on a set of wave functions, are attracting a great attention because of possible…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-10-18 Yusuke Masaki , Takeshi Mizushima , Muneto Nitta

We introduce group surface codes, which are a natural generalization of the $\mathbb{Z}_2$ surface code, and equivalent to quantum double models of finite groups with specific boundary conditions. We show that group surface codes can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Naren Manjunath , Vieri Mattei , Apoorv Tiwari , Tyler D. Ellison

A topological quantum computer should allow intrinsically fault-tolerant quantum computation, but there remains uncertainty about how such a computer can be implemented. It is known that topological quantum computation can be implemented…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 Ben W. Reichardt

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

Quantum gates in topological quantum computation are performed by braiding non-Abelian anyons. These braiding processes can presumably be performed with very low error rates. However, to make a topological quantum computation architecture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-22 Adrian Hutter , James R. Wootton

An explicit lattice realization of a non-Abelian topological memory is presented. The correspondence between logical and physical states is seen directly by use of the stabilizer formalism. The resilience of the encoded states against…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-04 James R. Wootton , Ville Lahtinen , Jiannis K. Pachos

We examine how best to design qubits for use in topological quantum computation. These qubits are topological Hilbert spaces associated with small groups of anyons. Op- erations are performed on these by exchanging the anyons. One might…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-06 R. Ainsworth , J. K. Slingerland