Southwest Quantum Information and Technology

A computationally universal phase of quantum matter

Presenting Author: Robert Raussendorf, University of British Columbia
Contributing Author(s): Cihan Okay (UBC), Dong-Sheng Wang (UBC), David T. Stephen (MPQ Garching), Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup (U Innsbruck)

We provide the first example of a symmetry protected quantum phase that has universal computational power. Throughout this phase, which lives in spatial dimension two, the ground state is a universal resource for measurement based quantum computation.

Read this article online: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.00095.pdf

(Session 3 : Sunday from 2:15pm - 2:45pm)