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Pith's one-line read A blueprint for two scalable spin-liquid-based topological qubit architectures, complete with protocols for anyon creation, readout, braiding, and gates.

arxiv 2411.08093 v1 pith:HL54BVAY submitted 2024-11-12 cond-mat.str-el cond-mat.mes-hall

Kai Klocke , Yue Liu , Gábor B. Halász , Jason Alicea This is my paper · ORCID
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Topological quantum computers store information in non-Abelian anyons, quasiparticles whose braiding can perform computations protected from local noise. Most proposed platforms, such as topological superconductors and fractional quantum Hall systems, are electrically active, which makes them easy to control with voltages and currents. Quantum spin liquids are magnetic insulators, so the usual electrical knobs do not work, and controlling anyons in them is harder. This paper builds on recent theoretical proposals for creating and detecting anyons in Kitaev spin liquids and assembles them into complete qubit device designs.

The first design sandwiches a patch of a Kitaev material between two ferromagnets, forming a magnetic tunnel junction. Switching the magnetizations can toggle that patch between a trivial phase and the spin-liquid phase, pulling Ising anyons out of the vacuum. An array of such junctions lets anyons be shuttled around, and thermal interferometry reads out the topological charge. The second design places a semiconductor on top of the spin liquid; each electron binds an anyon, so gate voltages can create, move, and detect anyons electrically. The paper presents minimal four-anyon qubit layouts, initialization sequences, fusion-rule tests, Ramsey-type lifetime measurements, braiding demonstrations, and gate sets, including non-Clifford phase gates and magic-state distillation.

These are blueprints, not working devices. The authors state that even the simplest qubit requires nontrivial experimental advances, and several control steps rest on assumptions about materials that have not been demonstrated. The value is that it gives experimentalists a concrete target and a sequence of checkable milestones.

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The abstract states: 'We leverage recent insights into the creation and detection of non-Abelian anyons in electrically insulating spin systems to propose topological qubit architectures based on quantum spin liquids.' The load-bearing assertion is that the two proposed architectures, magnetic tunnel junction arrays and semiconductor-spin liquid hybrids, provide a potentially scalable framework for creating, manipulating, reading out, and gating topological qubits in Kitaev spin liquids.

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The magnetic tunnel junction scheme requires that a local Zeeman field produced by two ferromagnetic layers can switch a patch of Kitaev material between a topologically trivial phase and the non-Abelian spin-liquid phase on nanosecond timescales while preserving the chiral edge structure; the paper states this as a postulate in Sec. IIC and Fig. 3 without a microscopic estimate. The electrical scheme similarly depends on the assumption, carried from Ref. 72, that dopant-reduced electron hopping keeps anyon-electron bound states stable (Sec. IID).

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  • domain assumption A non-Abelian Kitaev spin liquid exists and is described by a chiral Ising conformal field theory with central charge c = 1/2.
    The entire proposal assumes a material hosts this phase, for example alpha-RuCl3 in high field, whose non-Abelian signatures are debated (Refs. 44-56).
  • domain assumption Ising anyons are the lowest-energy edge excitations and can be generated dynamically by tuning a bridge between trivial and spin-liquid phases (Eq. 3, carried from Ref. 65).
    Magnetic tunnel junction qubit initialization relies on this external result with O(1) success probability.
  • ad hoc to paper Local exchange fields from magnetic tunnel junctions can toggle a patch of Kitaev material between trivial and non-Abelian spin-liquid phases on nanosecond timescales.
    Stated as a postulate in Sec. IIC; no microscopic model or quantitative estimate is provided, and the MTJ architecture depends on it.
  • domain assumption Electron-anyon bound states are stable when electron hopping is reduced below the magnetic exchange J (Sec. IID, from Ref. 72).
    The electrical architecture depends on Kondo-type binding of electrons to Ising anyons, with dopants slowing electron dynamics.
  • domain assumption Thermal anyon interferometry yields the conductance correction in Eq. (2) (from Ref. 64).
    Readout and the fusion and braiding demonstration protocols use this signal as a measurement of bulk topological charge.
  • domain assumption Quasiparticles are not generated on experimental timescales, and the residual qubit splitting follows omega_0 ~ 1/T_2 ~ e^{-L/xi} (Sec. IVC, from Ref. 73).
    The lifetime demonstration and the claimed topological protection of the qubit rely on this low-temperature, no-poisoning assumption.
  • domain assumption Adiabatic evolution during inchworm moves does not generate unwanted excitations, preserving the anyon content during transport (Secs. IIIA and IIIB).
    The manipulation protocols assume the bulk gap protects the anyons and that intermediate-time tuning stays in the correct adiabatic window.

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Topological quantum computation relies on control of non-Abelian anyons for inherently fault-tolerant storage and processing of quantum information. By now, blueprints for topological qubits are well developed for electrically active topological superconductor and fractional quantum Hall platforms. We leverage recent insights into the creation and detection of non-Abelian anyons in electrically insulating spin systems to propose topological qubit architectures based on quantum spin liquids. We present two types of prototype designs that enable the requisite control in a potentially scalable framework: one invokes spin liquids integrated into magnetic tunnel junction arrays, the other uses semiconductor-spin liquid hybrids. We further identify various protocols for interrogating spin-liquid-based topological qubits, both to validate the underlying principles of topological quantum computation and to establish gates required for universal quantum computation. These results provide long-term direction for experimental investigation of Kitaev materials and potentially other solid-state spin liquid hosts.

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