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Quons: A 3D Language for Quantum Information

Zhengwei Liu, Alex Wozniakowski, Arthur Jaffe

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Abstract

We present a 3D, topological picture-language for quantum information. Our approach combines charged excitations carried by strings, with topological properties that arise from embedding the strings in the interior of a three-dimensional manifold with boundary. A quon is a composite that acts as a particle. Specifically a quon is a hemisphere containing a neutral pair of open strings with opposite charge. We interpret multi-quons and their transformations in a natural way. We obtain a new type of relation, a string-genus "joint relation," involving both a string and the 3D manifold. We use the joint relation to obtain a topological interpretation of the $C^{*}$ Hopf algebra relations, that are widely used in tensor networks. We obtain a 3D representation of the Controlled NOT or CNOT gate (that is considerably simpler than earlier work) and a 3D topological protocol for teleportation.

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Journal reference
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences vol. 114 no. 10, 2497-2502 (2017)
DOI
doi:10.1073/pnas.1621345114
Subjects
quant-phQuantum Physics hep-thHigh Energy Physics, Theory math-phMathematical Physics math.OAOperator Algebras math.QAQuantum Algebra

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