Simulation of topological field theories by quantum computers

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DOI10.1007/S002200200635zbMATH Open1014.81006arXivquant-ph/0001071OpenAlexW2167050139WikidataQ56386246 ScholiaQ56386246MaRDI QIDQ1865540FDOQ1865540

Michael Freedman, Alexei Yu. Kitaev, Zhenghan Wang

Publication date: 27 March 2003

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Quantum computers will work by evolving a high tensor power of a small (e.g. two) dimensional Hilbert space by local gates, which can be implemented by applying a local Hamiltonian H for a time t. In contrast to this quantum engineering, the most abstract reaches of theoretical physics has spawned topological models having a finite dimensional internal state space with no natural tensor product structure and in which the evolution of the state is discrete, H = 0. These are called topological quantum filed theories (TQFTs). These exotic physical systems are proved to be efficiently simulated on a quantum computer. The conclusion is two-fold: 1. TQFTs cannot be used to define a model of computation stronger than the usual quantum model BQP. 2. TQFTs provide a radically different way of looking at quantum computation. The rich mathematical structure of TQFTs might suggest a new quantum algorithm.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0001071






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