Engineering complex topological memories from simple Abelian models

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2011.05.008zbMATH Open1227.81138arXiv0908.0708OpenAlexW3104900813MaRDI QIDQ719702FDOQ719702

B. Douçot, James R. Wootton, Jiannis K. Pachos, Ville Lahtinen

Publication date: 11 October 2011

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In three spatial dimensions, particles are limited to either bosonic or fermionic statistics. Two-dimensional systems, on the other hand, can support anyonic quasiparticles exhibiting richer statistical behaviours. An exciting proposal for quantum computation is to employ anyonic statistics to manipulate information. Since such statistical evolutions depend only on topological characteristics, the resulting computation is intrinsically resilient to errors. So-called non-Abelian anyons are most promising for quantum computation, but their physical realization may prove to be complex. Abelian anyons, however, are easier to understand theoretically and realize experimentally. Here we show that complex topological memories inspired by non-Abelian anyons can be engineered in Abelian models. We explicitly demonstrate the control procedures for the encoding and manipulation of quantum information in specific lattice models that can be implemented in the laboratory. This bridges the gap between requirements for anyonic quantum computation and the potential of state-of-the-art technology.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0908.0708

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zbMATH Keywords

anyonfault-tolerant quantum computationtopological model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Quantum coding (general) (81P70) Other types of codes (94B60)

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• Majorana anyons, non-Abelian statistics and quantum computation in Chern–Simons–Higgs theory
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