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Mathematics of Topological Quantum Computing
- Entalpi 9y agoSomeone explain this to as you would a five year old.
- Koshkin 9y agoNot exactly for a five year old, but see the Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_quantum_computer#Topological_vs._standard_quantum_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological_quantum_computer#T...
- kmill 9y agoMy approximate understanding: Some problems reduce to calculating the trace of a matrix. The matrix might be really complicated, but sometimes you can approximate it by having particles braid around each other and measuring how likely the particles end up in a particular state. In theory it can be put into practice using materials called "topological insulators." The Jones polynomial is a thing which can tell knots apart. The quantum computer can calculate the Jones polynomial by having particles trace out the knot. The Jones polynomial usually takes exponential time to calculate. The "topological" in "topological quantum computing" refers to the braiding and the fact that they're computing topological invariants of a space.
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- p1esk 9y agoI think he meant a 5 year old without a PhD in mathematics.
- self-diversity 9y ago"You won't understand it for a few years, you have not yet developed the cognitive capacity and you don't understand the basic concepts. Go watch a Star War"
- gigatexal 9y agoif done, said someone, would be in line for the nobel prize.
- mathgenius 9y agoThese particles (anyons) live in two dimensions, so their world-lines trace out paths in three dimensions (two space dimensions and one time dimension.) These world-line paths get braided or knotted, just like hair does. And even though your hair gets jiggled around by the wind (quantum noise) those braids remain intact (the quantum information is preserved.) Edit. For the very bravest of five year olds, I wrote a paper on these things here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05384 https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05384
- drdre2001 9y agoThe way I understand it, non-abelian anyons, which are the anyons that can be used to build a universal quantum computer have not been found yet. Correct?
- zmgehlke 9y agoJust a side note: that paper appears to have a title from an older paper when displayed in Chrome. (Not on the page, on the status bar.)
- drdre2001 9y agoHere is a fantastic video about it:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKFecm9NKbM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKFecm9NKbM
- gaze 9y agoHas someone found a particle for which some exchange yields something like a magic state? I've been told that known nonabelian anyons can only be exchanged up to Cliffords
- zmgehlke 9y agoSo they touch on 4-dimensional theories only briefly, but one thing I'm very curious about is if higher dimensional theories provide a richer computational structure, in any of several senses. Every 1-knot has a sort of 2-knot analog (actually, a whole family of them) made by "revolving" the knot, but there are 2-knots not generated in this manner. (The same holds true for higher dimensional knots.) As we go higher, there are knot moves not even possible in lower dimensions (such as twists). Just a thought.
- thret 9y ago"Elementary particles are elementary excitations of the vacuum, which explains why they are identical." (pg 4 ref 3) Is this now accepted fact, everything is a wave and there are no particles?
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- nnfy 9y agoThis isn't really a question, all particles exhibit both wavelike and particle like behaviors. What matters is the scale (mass and energy) which determines which behavior will dominate.
- gaze 9y agoThe particle-wave duality thing ended like 40 years ago. Particles are just excitations of the associated field.