Non-Abelian anyonic interferometry with a multi-photon spin lattice simulator
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Recently a pair of experiments [1, 2] demonstrated a simulation of Abelian anyons in a spin network of single photons. The experiments were based on an Abelian discrete gauge theory spin lattice model of Kitaev [3]. Here we describe how to use linear optics and single photons to simulate non-Abelian anyons. The scheme makes use of joint qutrit-qubit encoding of the spins and the resources required are three pairs of parametric down converted photons and 14 beam splitters. Non-Abelian anyonic interferometry with a multi-photon spin lattice simulator 2
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