Shortest Route to Non-Abelian Topological Order on a Quantum Processor
Abstract
A highly coveted goal is to realize emergent non-Abelian gauge theories and their anyonic excitations, which encode decoherence-free quantum information. While measurements in quantum devices provide new hope for scalably preparing such long-range entangled states, existing protocols using the experimentally established ingredients of a finite-depth circuit and a single round of measurement produce only Abelian states. Surprisingly, we show there exists a broad family of non-Abelian states—namely those with a Lagrangian subgroup—which can be created using these same minimal ingredients, bypassing the need for new resources such as feed forward. To illustrate that this provides realistic protocols, we show how D₄ non-Abelian topological order can be realized, e.g., on Google's quantum processors using a depth-11 circuit and a single layer of measurements. Our work opens the way toward the realization and manipulation of non-Abelian topological orders, and highlights counterintuitive features of the complexity of non-Abelian phases.
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© 2023 American Physical Society.
Acknowledgement
The authors thank Ryan Thorngren for insightful discussions. N. T. is supported by the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at Caltech. R. V. is supported by the Harvard Quantum Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science and Engineering, and R. V. and A. V. by the Simons Collaboration on Ultra-Quantum Matter, which is a grant from the Simons Foundation (651440, A. V.).
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- ISSN
- 1079-7114
- Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Harvard University
- Simons Foundation
- 651440
- Caltech groups
- Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics