Proposed quantum device may succinctly realize emergent particles such
as the Fibonacci anyon
Date:
February 15, 2023
Source:
Purdue University
Summary:
Tenacity has taken a roadblock and turned it into a possible route
to the development of quantum computing.
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Long before Dr. Jukka Vayrynen was an assistant professor at the Purdue Department of Physics and Astronomy, he was a post-doc investigating
a theoretical model with emergent particles in a condensed matter
setting. Once he arrived at Purdue, he intended to expand on the model, expecting it to be relatively easy. He gave the seemingly straightforward calculations to Guangjie Li, a graduate student working with Vayrynen,
but the calculations yielded an unexpected result. These results were a surprising roadblock which nearly brought their research to a screeching
halt. Team tenacity has taken this roadblock and turned it into a possible route to the development of quantum computing.
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At the Aspen Center for Physics in Colorado, Vayrynen discussed this
issue with a colleague from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel,
Dr. Yuval Oreg, who helped circumvent the obstacle. The team used this
new understanding of their calculations to propose a quantum device
that could be tested experimentally to succinctly realize emergent
particles such as the Fibonacci anyon. They have published their findings, "Multichannel topological Kondo effect," in Physical Review Letters on
February 10, 2023.
Condensed matter theory is a field of physics that studies, for example,
the properties of electronic quantum systems, with applications to
technologies such as superconductors, transistors, or quantum computing devices. One of the challenges in this field is understanding the quantum mechanical behavior of many electrons, also known as the "many-body
problem." It is a problem because it can only be theoretically modeled in
very limited cases. However, even in those limited cases, rich emergent phenomena such as collective excitations or fractionally charged emergent "quasi"-particles are known to emerge. These phenomena are a result of
the complex interactions between electrons and can lead to the development
of new materials and technologies.
"In our paper, we propose a quantum device that is simple enough to
be theoretically modeled and tested experimentally in the future,
yet also complex enough to display non-trivial emergent particles,"
says Vayrynen. "Our results indicate that the proposed device can
realize an emergent particle called a Fibonacci anyon that can be used
as a building block of a quantum computer. The device is therefore a
promising candidate for the development of quantum computing technology."
This discovery could be used in future quantum computers in a way that
allows one to make them more resistant to decoherence, a.k.a. noise.
According to their publication, the team introduced a physically motivated
N- channel generalization of a topological Kondo model. Starting from the simplest case N = 2, they conjecture a stable intermediate coupling fixed
point and evaluate the resulting low-temperature impurity entropy. The
impurity entropy indicates that an emergent Fibonacci anyon can be
realized in the N = 2 model.
According to Li, "a Fibonacci anyon is an emergent particle with the
property that as you add more particles to the system, the number
of quantum states grows like the Fibonacci sequence, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,
etc. In our system, a small quantum device is connected to conduction
electron leads which will overly screen the device and can result in an emergent Fibonacci anyon." The team also gives a number of predictions
that could be experimentally tested in future quantum devices.
"We evaluate the zero-temperature impurity entropy and conductance
to obtain experimentally observable signatures of our results. In the
large-N limit we evaluate the full cross over function describing the temperature-dependent conductance," says Vayrynen.
This research is the first in a series that the Purdue team of Li and
Vayrynen will work on. They collaborated with a senior scientist from Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Germany, Dr. Elio Ko"nig,
and posted a related work, "Topological Symplectic Kondo Effect," in a
preprint arXiv (2210.16614) on October 20, 2022.
This research was based on work supported by the Quantum Science Center,
a U.S.
Department of Energy National Quantum Information Science Research Center headquartered at DOE's Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Dr. Yong Chen, the
Karl Lark-Horovitz Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, is on the QSC's Governance Advisory
Board, and Purdue is one of the center's core partners.
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========================================================================== Story Source: Materials provided by Purdue_University. Original written
by Cheryl Pierce.
Note: Content may be edited for style and length.
========================================================================== Journal Reference:
1. Guangjie Li, Yuval Oreg, Jukka I. Va"yrynen. Multichannel
Topological
Kondo Effect. Physical Review Letters, 2023; 130 (6) DOI: 10.1103/
PhysRevLett.130.066302 ==========================================================================
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