Interferometric signature of non-Abelian anyons

Waheb Bishara,1 Parsa Bonderson,2 Chetan Nayak,2,3 Kirill Shtengel,4,5 and J. K. Slingerland6,7 1Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 2Microsoft Research, Station Q, Elings Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA 3Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA 4Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California 92507, USA 5Institute for Quantum Information, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 6School of Theoretical Physics, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 10 Burlington Road, Dublin, Ireland 7Department of Mathematical Physics, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland Received 27 May 2009; revised manuscript received 13 August 2009; published 5 October 2009