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We review the q-deformed spin network approact to Topological Quantum Field Theory and apply these methods to produce unitary representations of the braid groups that are dense in the unitary groups. These methods produce a concise proof…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Louis H. Kauffman , Samuel J. Lomonaco

The Jones polynomial, discovered in 1984, is an important knot invariant in topology. Among its many connections to various mathematical and physical areas, it is known (due to Witten) to be intimately connected to Topological Quantum Field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dorit Aharonov , Vaughan Jones , Zeph Landau

This expository essay is aimed at introducing the Jones polynomial. We will see the encapsulation of the Jones polynomial, which will involve topics in functional analysis and geometrical topology; making this essay an interdisciplinary…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Monica Queen

According to the statistical interpretation of quantum theory, quantum computers form a distinguished class of probabilistic machines (PMs) by encoding n qubits in 2n pbits (random binary variables). This raises the possibility of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Gralewicz

We apply big data techniques, including exploratory and topological data analysis, to investigate quantum invariants. More precisely, our study explores the Jones polynomial's structural properties and contrasts its behavior under four…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-06-24 Daniel Tubbenhauer , Victor Zhang

We examine the structure and dimensionality of the Jones polynomial using manifold learning techniques. Our data set consists of more than 10 million knots up to 17 crossings and two other special families up to 2001 crossings. We introduce…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Jesse S F Levitt , Mustafa Hajij , Radmila Sazdanovic

In this work, we develop a graphical calculus for multi-qudit computations with generalized Clifford algebras, building off the algebraic framework developed in our prior work. We build our graphical calculus out of a fixed set of graphical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Robert Lin

Recently developed quantum algorithms suggest that quantum computers can solve certain problems and perform certain tasks more efficiently than conventional computers. Among other reasons, this is due to the possibility of creating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rolando D. Somma

The Slope Conjecture relates a quantum knot invariant, (the degree of the colored Jones polynomial of a knot) with a classical one (boundary slopes of incompressible surfaces in the knot complement). The degree of the colored Jones…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2016-08-03 Stavros Garoufalidis , Roland van der Veen

We prove that quantum computation is polynomially equivalent to classical probabilistic computation with an oracle for estimating the value of simple sums, quadratically signed weight enumerators. The problem of estimating these sums can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Knill , R. Laflamme

Using a simple recurrence relation we give a new method to compute Jones polynomials of closed braids: we find a general expansion formula and a rational generating function for Jones polynomials. The method is used to estimate degree of…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2010-02-22 Barbu Berceanu , Abdul Rauf Nizami

We present a quantum algorithm that additively approximates the value of a tensor network to a certain scale. When combined with existing results, this provides a complete problem for quantum computation. The result is a simple new way of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-09 Itai Arad , Zeph Landau

Physical systems, characterized by an ensemble of interacting elementary constituents, can be represented and studied by different algebras of observables or operators. For example, a fully polarized electronic system can be investigated by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Somma , G. Ortiz , J. E. Gubernatis , E. Knill , R. Laflamme

We introduce an algebraic theory of integration on quantum planes and other braided spaces. In the one dimensional case we obtain a novel picture of the Jackson $q$-integral as indefinite integration on the braided group of functions in one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Kempf , Shahn Majid

The topological model for quantum computation is an inherently fault-tolerant model built on anyons in topological phases of matter. A key role is played by the braid group, and in this survey we focus on a selection of ways that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-26 Eric C. Rowell

In this article we shall give an account of certain developments in knot theory which followed upon the discovery of the Jones polynomial in 1984. The focus of our account will be recent glimmerings of understanding of the topological…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-09-25 Joan S. Birman

In this paper, the space complexity of nonuniform quantum computations is investigated. The model chosen for this are quantum branching programs, which provide a graphic description of sequential quantum algorithms. In the first part of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Sauerhoff , D. Sieling

We use the relation between the quantum su(2) R-matrix and the Burau representation of the braid group in order to study the structure of the colored Jones polynomial of links. We show that similarly to the case of a knot, the colored Jones…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. Rozansky

A geometrical approach to quantum computation is presented, where a non-abelian connection is introduced in order to rewrite the evolution operator of an energy degenerate system as a holonomic unitary. For a simple geometrical model we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiannis Pachos

Extending the methods from our previous work on quantum knots and quantum graphs, we describe a general procedure for quantizing a large class of mathematical structures which includes, for example, knots, graphs, groups, algebraic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Samuel J. Lomonaco , Louis H. Kauffman