BRAIDING AND ENTANGLEMENT IN SPIN NETWORKS: A COMBINATORIAL APPROACH TO TOPOLOGICAL PHASES (original) (raw)

2009, International Journal of Quantum Information

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 network automata are able to perform efficiently approximate calculations of topological invarians of knots and 3-manifolds. The same algebraic background is shared by 2D lattice models supporting topological phases of matter that have recently gained much interest in condensed matter physics. These developments are motivated by the possibility to store quantum information fault-tolerantly in a physical system supporting fractional statistics since a part of the associated Hilbert space is insensitive to local perturbations. Most of currently addressed approaches are framed within a 'double' quantum Chern-Simons field theory, whose quantum amplitudes represent evolution histories of local lattice degrees of freedom.

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