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20202026
most citedGeometric description of the Kitaev honeycomb lattice model

15 citations · 37 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

quant-ph2026

Reconstructing non-Abelian braiding and fusion without anyon transport

Lucy Byles, Matthew D. Horner, Benjamin T. H. Varcoe +1

Non-Abelian anyons offer a route to fault-tolerant and universal quantum computing, but experimental access to their defining braiding and fusion data remains limited by the resour…

physics.comp-ph2026

Tensor network compression using fluid dynamics as a testbed: Analytical foundations in one dimension

Matthew D. Horner, Callum W. Duncan, Oliver T. Brown +2

High performance computers produce extreme-scale data sets that require sampling or compression if they are to be used to their full potential. Existing data compression techniques…

quant-ph2025

Mitigating the barren plateau problem in linear optics

Matthew D. Horner

We prove that variational quantum algorithms using discrete variable boson samplers suffer from barren plateaus and that by changing to fermionic statistics, which is classically e…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 5 cited

Optimally scrambling chiral spin-chain with effective black hole geometry

Aiden Daniel, Andrew Hallam, Matthew D. Horner +1

There is currently significant interest in emulating the essential characteristics of black holes, such as their Hawking radiation or their optimal scrambling behavior, using conde…

cond-mat.str-el2023

Exploring interacting chiral spin chains in terms of black hole physics

Ewan Forbes, Matthew D. Horner, Andrew Hallam +2

In this paper we explore the properties of a 1-dimensional spin chain in the presence of chiral interactions, focusing on the system's transition to distinct chiral phases for vari…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 1 cited

Emergent Spacetime in Quantum Lattice Models

Matthew D. Horner

Many quantum lattice models have an emergent relativistic description in their continuum limit. The celebrated example is graphene, whose continuum limit is described by the Dirac…

cond-mat.str-el2022★ 11 cited

Chiral Spin-Chain Interfaces Exhibiting Event-Horizon Physics

Matthew D. Horner, Andrew Hallam, Jiannis K. Pachos

The interface between different quantum phases of matter can give rise to novel physics, such as exotic topological phases or non-unitary conformal field theories. Here we investig…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Edge density of bulk states due to relativity

Matthew D. Horner, Jiannis K. Pachos

The boundaries of quantum materials can host a variety of exotic effects such as topologically robust edge states or anyonic quasiparticles. Here, we show that fermionic systems su…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 5 cited

Equivalence between vortices, twists and chiral gauge fields in Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model

Matthew D. Horner, Ashk Farjami, Jiannis K. Pachos

We demonstrate that gauge transformations and lattice deformations in Kitaev's honeycomb lattice model can have the same description in the continuum limit of the mo…

cond-mat.str-el2020★ 15 cited

Geometric description of the Kitaev honeycomb lattice model

Ashk Farjami, Matthew D. Horner, Chris N. Self +2

It is widely accepted that topological superconductors can only have an effective interpretation in terms of curved geometry rather than gauge fields due to their charge neutrality…