3D Topological Quantum Computing

Abstract

In this paper we will present some ideas to use 3D topology for quantum computing extending ideas from a previous paper. Topological quantum computing used \textquotedblleft knotted\textquotedblright{} quantum states of topological phases of matter, called anyons. But anyons are connected with surface topology. But surfaces have (usually) abelian fundamental groups and therefore one needs non-abelian anyons to use it for quantum computing. But usual materials are 3D objects which can admit more complicated topologies. Here, complements of knots do play a prominent role and are in principle the main parts to understand 3-manifold topology. For that purpose, we will construct a quantum system on the complements of a knot in the 3-sphere (see arXiv:2102.04452 for previous work). The whole system is designed as knotted superconductor where every crossing is a Josephson junction and the qubit is realized as flux qubit. We discuss the properties of this systems in particular the fluxion quantization by using the A-polynomial of the knot. Furthermore we showed that 2-qubit operations can be realized by linked (knotted) superconductors again coupled via a Josephson junction.

14 pages, 4 figures, accepted in International J. of Quantum Information (IJQI). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2102.04452

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