BF-theory in graphene: a route toward topological quantum computing?
Quantum Physics
2012-09-13 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Abstract
Besides the plenty of applications of graphene allotropes in condensed matter and nanotechnology, we argue that graphene sheets might be engineered to support room-temperature topological quantum processing of information. The argument is based on the possibility of modeling the monolayer graphene effective action by means of a 3d Topological Quantum Field Theory of BF-type able to sustain non-Abelian anyon dynamics. This feature is the basic requirement of recently proposed theoretical frameworks for fault-tolerant and decoherence protected quantum computation.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1111.1593,
title = {BF-theory in graphene: a route toward topological quantum computing?},
author = {Annalisa Marzuoli and Giandomenico Palumbo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.1593},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Slightly expanded version: added comments in introduction and concluding remarks; results unchanged. Europhysics Letters, in press 2012