Quantum computation and the localization of modular functors

DOI10.1007/S102080010006MaRDI QIDQ5943878zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Freedman

Publication date 1 February 2003

Published in Foundations of Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0003128

zbMATH Keywords

Hamiltonianmodular functorWitten-Chern-Simons theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological quantum field theories (aspects of differential topology) (57R56) Quantum computation (81P68)

Abstract: The mathematical problem of localizing modular functors to neighborhoods of points is shown to be closely related to the physical problem of engineering a local Hamiltonian for a computationally universal quantum medium. For genus $=0$ surfaces, such a local Hamiltonian is mathematically defined. Braiding defects of this medium implements a representation associated to the Jones polynomial and this representation is known to be universal for quantum computation.

Review text

To build a topological quantum computer, we need to find a real quantum system modeled by a modular functor. If such quantum systems do exist in nature, they should be described by some local Hamiltonian. In the paper under review, the author demonstrates the feasibility by designing a local Hamiltonian for the Witten-Chern-Simons theory at the 5th root of unity. Although the Hamiltonian is complicated, the theoretical implication is very significant. The general problem of localizing modular functors is still open. Further progress has been made by the author [A magnetic model with a possible Chern-Simons phase, Comm. Math. Phys. (to appear)].

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