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Simulating physical systems on near-term quantum computers often requires preparing states within constrained subspaces, like those with fixed particle number or spin. We use Lie algebraic techniques to prove that hardware-efficient gates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Andreas Stergiou , Nicolas PD Sawaya

Read-Rezayi fractional quantum Hall states are among the prime candidates for realizing non-Abelian anyons which in principle can be used for topological quantum computation. We present a prescription for efficiently finding braids which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-14 L. Hormozi , N. E. Bonesteel , S. H. Simon

The development of quantum computing technologies builds on the unique features of quantum physics while borrowing familiar principles from the design of conventional devices. We introduce the fundamental concepts required for designing and…

Using tangent bundle geometry we construct an equivalent reformulation of classical field theory on flat spacetimes which simultaneously encodes the perspectives of multiple observers. Its generalization to curved spacetimes realizes a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-13 Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

Fibonacci anyons are attractive for use in topological quantum computation because any unitary transformation of their state space can be approximated arbitrarily accurately by braiding. However there is no known braid that entangles two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Stephen Bigelow , Claire Levaillant

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…

Continuous-variable quantum computing utilizes continuous parameters of a quantum system to encode information, promising efficient solutions to complex problems. Trapped-ion systems provide a robust platform with long coherence times and…

We present a method for network-capable quantum computing that relies on holographic spin-wave excitations stored collectively in ensembles of qubits. We construct an orthogonal basis of spin waves in a one-dimensional array and show that…

We propose a method for quantum computation which uses control of spin-orbit coupling in a linear array of single electron quantum dots. Quantum gates are carried out by pulsing the exchange interaction between neighboring electron spins,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Stepanenko , N. E. Bonesteel

We consider interactions that generate a universal set of quantum gates on logical qubits encoded in a collective-dephasing-free subspace, and discuss their implementations with trapped ions. This allows for the removal of the by-far…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-14 Leandro Aolita , Luiz Davidovich , Kihwan Kim , Hartmut Häffner

The spin network quantum simulator relies on the su(2) representation ring (or its q-deformed counterpart at q= root of unity) and its basic features naturally include (multipartite) entanglement and braiding. In particular, q-deformed spin…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 Zoltan Kadar , Annalisa Marzuoli , Mario Rasetti

Quantum walks are the quantum-mechanical analog of random walks, in which a quantum `walker' evolves between initial and final states by traversing the edges of a graph, either in discrete steps from node to node or via continuous evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Michael S. Underwood , David L. Feder

Quantum computing allows for the potential of significant advancements in both the speed and the capacity of widely used machine learning techniques. Here we employ quantum algorithms for the Hopfield network, which can be used for pattern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Patrick Rebentrost , Thomas R. Bromley , Christian Weedbrook , Seth Lloyd

In quantum computing, the connectivity of qubits placed on two-dimensional chips limits the scalability and functionality of solid-state quantum computers. This paper presents two approaches to constructing complex quantum networks from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Yu-Hang Dang , Shyam Dhamapurkar , Xiao-Long Zhu , Zheng-Yang Zhou , Hao-Yu Guan , Xiu-Hao Deng

Quantum contextuality, a fundamental feature distinguishing quantum theory from classical models, is investigated via algebraic and topological structures inherent in modular tensor categories. This work rigorously demonstrates that braid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Tzu-Miao Chou

PhD thesis investigating homological quantum codes derived from curved and higher dimensional geometries. In the first part we will consider closed surfaces with constant negative curvature. We show how such surfaces can be constructed and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Nikolas P. Breuckmann

These lecture notes offer a pedagogical yet concise introduction to topological quantum computing. The material focuses on topological superconductors and Majorana qubits. It concludes with a discussion of more general braiding phenomena.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Fabian Hassler

Attention is focused on quantum spaces of physical importance, i.e. Manin plane, q-deformed Euclidean space in three or four dimensions as well as q-deformed Minkowski space. There are algebra isomorphisms that allow to identify quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hartmut Wachter

In this paper we present an implementation of a computer algorithm that automatically determines the topological structure of spacetime, using a branched covering space representation. This algorithm is applied to a few simple examples in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-13 Christopher L Duston

Topological quantum computing has recently proven itself to be a powerful computational model when constructing viable architectures for large scale computation. The topological model is constructed from the foundation of a error correction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 Simon J. Devitt , Kae Nemoto