arXiv:1701.05052

Topological Quantum Computing

Ananda Roy, David Peter Divincenzo

Published Jan 18, 2017• 1 citation

Abstract

This set of lecture notes forms the basis of a series of lectures delivered at the 48th IFF Spring School 2017 on Topological Matter: Topological Insulators, Skyrmions and Majoranas at Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany. The first part of the lecture notes covers the basics of abelian and non-abelian anyons and their realization in the Kitaev's honeycomb model. The second part discusses how to perform universal quantum computation using Majorana fermions.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.05052

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