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Measurement-based quantum computation (MQC) is a paradigm for studying quantum computation using many-body entanglement and single-qubit measurements. While MQC has inspired wide-ranging discoveries throughout quantum information, our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Jacob Miller , Akimasa Miyake

We study the "entanglement spectrum" (a presentation of the Schmidt decomposition analogous to a set of "energy levels") of a many-body state, and compare the Moore-Read model wavefunction for the $\nu$ = 5/2 fractional quantum Hall state…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-07 Hui Li , F. D. M. Haldane

Quantum nonlinear spectroscopy (QNS) via a quantum sensor can access $2^{n-1}$ types of $n$-th order contour-time-ordered correlations (CTOCs) arising from different orderings of quantum operators, while classical nonlinear spectroscopy can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Li Sun , Chong Chen , Ren-Bao Liu

It is an ongoing quest to realize topologically ordered quantum states on different platforms including condensed matter systems, quantum simulators and digital quantum processors. Unlike conventional states characterized by their local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-02-26 Adam Gammon-Smith , Michael Knap , Frank Pollmann

Here we show how the Minimally Entangled States (MES) of a 2d system with topological order can be identified using the geometric measure of entanglement. We show this by minimizing this measure for the doubled semion, doubled Fibonacci and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-12 Oliver Buerschaper , Artur Garcia-Saez , Roman Orus , Tzu-Chieh Wei

Topological phases of matter offer a promising platform for quantum computation and quantum error correction. Nevertheless, unlike its counterpart in pure states, descriptions of topological order in mixed states remain relatively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Zhuan Li , Roger S. K. Mong

We study Galois actions on $2+1$D topological quantum field theories (TQFTs), characterizing their interplay with theory factorization, gauging, the structure of gapped boundaries and dualities, 0-form symmetries, 1-form symmetries, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-19 Matthew Buican , Rajath Radhakrishnan

Quantum networks are promising tools for the implementation of long-range quantum communication. The characterization of quantum correlations in networks and their usefulness for information processing is therefore central for the progress…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 Kiara Hansenne , Zhen-Peng Xu , Tristan Kraft , Otfried Gühne

Tensor networks impose a notion of geometry on the entanglement of a quantum system. In some cases, this geometry is found to reproduce key properties of holographic dualities, and subsequently much work has focused on using tensor networks…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-04 Katharine Hyatt , James R. Garrison , Bela Bauer

We use the topological quantum field theory description of states in Chern-Simons theory to discuss the relation between spacetime connectivity and entanglement, exploring the paradigm entanglement=topology. We define a special class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-29 Dmitry Melnikov

These notes review a description of quantum mechanics in terms of the topology of spaces, basing on the axioms of Topological Quantum Field Theory and path integral formalism. In this description quantum states and operators are encoded by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Dmitry Melnikov

Sensitivity to noise makes most of the current quantum computing schemes prone to error and nonscalable, allowing only for small proof-of-principle devices. Topologically-protected quantum computing aims at solving this problem by encoding…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-12-17 Helmut G. Katzgraber , Ruben S. Andrist

Topological entanglement entropy (TEE) is an efficient way to detect topological order in the ground state of gapped Hamiltonians. The seminal work of Kitaev and Preskill~\cite{preskill-kitaev-tee} and simultaneously by Levin and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Joydeep Naskar , Sai Satyam Samal

The theory of quantum mechanics is examined using non-standard real numbers, called quantum real numbers (qr-numbers), that are constructed from standard Hilbert space entities. Our goal is to resolve some of the paradoxical features of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-03 John V Corbett

Local Hamiltonians with topological quantum order exhibit highly entangled ground states that cannot be prepared by shallow quantum circuits. Here, we show that this property may extend to all low-energy states in the presence of an on-site…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Sergey Bravyi , Alexander Kliesch , Robert Koenig , Eugene Tang

We consider (2+1)-dimensional topological quantum states which possess edge states described by a chiral (1+1)-dimensional Conformal Field Theory (CFT), such as e.g. a general quantum Hall state. We demonstrate that for such states the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-06-13 Xiao-Liang Qi , Hosho Katsura , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

Topological symmetries, invertible and otherwise, play a fundamental role in the investigation of quantum field theories. Despite their ubiquitous importance across a multitude of disciplines ranging from string theory to condensed matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Christopher Lamb , Robert M. Konik , Hubert Saleur , Ananda Roy

The physical realization of $\mathbb Z_2$ topological order as encountered in the paradigmatic toric code has proven to be an elusive goal. We predict that this phase of matter can be realized in a two-dimensional array of Rydberg atoms…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-31 Ruben Verresen , Mikhail D. Lukin , Ashvin Vishwanath

The construction of a theory of quantum gravity is an outstanding problem that can benefit from better understanding the laws of nature that are expected to hold in regimes currently inaccessible to experiment. Such fundamental laws can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-17 Friedrich Schöller

One of the most fundamental problems in quantum many-body physics is the characterization of correlations among thermal states. Of particular relevance is the thermal area law, which justifies the tensor network approximations to thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-12 Tomotaka Kuwahara , Álvaro M. Alhambra , Anurag Anshu