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View SchemaQuantum Computation and the localization of Modular Functors
| Authors | Michael H. Freedman |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0003128 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0003128 |
Abstract
The mathematical problem of localizing modular functors to neighborhoods of points is shown to be closely related to the physical problem of engineering a local Hamiltonian for a computationally universal quantum medium. For genus $=0$ surfaces, such a local Hamiltonian is mathematically defined. Braiding defects of this medium implements a representation associated to the Jones polynomial and this representation is known to be universal for quantum computation.
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