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Published March 12, 2013 | Submitted + Supplemental Material
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Topologically protected quantum state transfer in a chiral spin liquid

Abstract

Topology plays a central role in ensuring the robustness of a wide variety of physical phenomena. Notable examples range from the current-carrying edge states associated with the quantum Hall and the quantum spin Hall effects to topologically protected quantum memory and quantum logic operations. Here we propose and analyse a topologically protected channel for the transfer of quantum states between remote quantum nodes. In our approach, state transfer is mediated by the edge mode of a chiral spin liquid. We demonstrate that the proposed method is intrinsically robust to realistic imperfections associated with disorder and decoherence. Possible experimental implementations and applications to the detection and characterization of spin liquid phases are discussed.

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© 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited. Received 6 Sep 2012; Accepted 20 Jan 2013; Published 12 Mar 2013. We gratefully acknowledge conversations with T. Kitagawa, S. Bennett, P. Maurer, E. Altman, E. Demler, S. Sachdev, M. Freedman and J. Preskill. This work was supported, in part, by the NSF, DOE (FG02-97ER25308), CUA, DARPA, AFOSR MURI, NIST, Lawrence Golub Fellowship, Lee A. DuBridge Foundation, the Sherman Fairchild Foundation, IQIM and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. H.W. was supported by the National Science Foundation through a grant for the Institute for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and by a fellowship within the Postdoc Programme of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Author contributions: All authors contributed extensively to all aspects of this work.

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