We’re very excited to share that our recent work was published in Physical Review Letters while also being highlighted on the cover of the journal!
In this collaboration with groups from University of Leeds and Imperial College London, we program high fidelity non-unitary qutrit operators inside a multi-mode fiber, simulating fusion and braiding of non-Abelian D(S3) anyons. For this to work, we combine techniques developed in our previous works such as characterizing multi-mode fibers, designing non-unitary operations, as well as programming optical circuits.
You can read the open-access publication here:
Unveiling the Non-Abelian Statistics of D(S3) Anyons Using a Classical Photonic Simulator, Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110601 (2024)
BBQ Lab 