Theory and simulation of topological devices

Presentations

• Fault-Tolerant Quantum Error Correction for the universal D(S₃) topological code

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 12:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Liyuan Chen

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Liyuan Chen

    • Harvard University

  • Si-Yuan Chen

    • Harvard University

  • Arthur Jaffe

    • Harvard University

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• Decoherence of charge anyons in non-Abelian quantum double models

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 12:12 PM – March 19, 2026, 12:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Rohith Sajith

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Rohith Sajith

    • Harvard University

  • Yabo Li

  • Zijian Song

  • Tsung-Cheng Lu

  • Carolyn Zhang

    • Harvard University

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• From negligible to neglecton: making Ising anyons braiding universal

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 12:24 PM – March 19, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Publication: "From negligible to neglecton: making Ising anyons braiding universal", https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02843,
  "Universal quantum computation using Ising anyons from a non-semisimple topological quantum field theory", https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61342-8

  Presenters

  • Filippo Iulianelli

    • University of Southern California

  Authors

  • Filippo Iulianelli

    • University of Southern California

  • Sung Kim

  • Joshua Sussan

  • Aaron Lauda

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• Optimal Thresholds and Decoders for Non-Abelian Topological Order

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23765

  Presenters

  • Dian Jing

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Dian Jing

    • University of Chicago

  • Pablo Sala de Torres-Solanot

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Liang Jiang

    • University of Chicago

  • Ruben Verresen

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• Distance Multiplication and Geometry of Quantum Codes in Product Manifolds

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Jagannathan Arjun Sathyamoorthy

    • University of Southern California

  Authors

  • Jagannathan Arjun Sathyamoorthy

    • University of Southern California

  • Todd Brun

    • University of Southern California

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• ASim: a numerical package for error-correction simulations in non-Abelian topological codes

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Si-Yuan Chen

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Si-Yuan Chen

    • Harvard University

  • Liyuan Chen

    • Harvard University

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• Charge-Informed Quantum Error Correction

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Vlad Temkin

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Vlad Temkin

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Zack Weinstein

    • California Institute of Technology

  • Ruihua Fan

  • Daniel Podolsky

    • Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  • Ehud Altman

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• 1D Braiding Dynamics for Topological Qubits in the Finite-Time Regime

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Adrian Scheppe

    • Air Force Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Adrian Scheppe

    • Air Force Institute of Technology

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• Atomistic Simulations for Optimizing Materials in Majorana-Based Topological Quantum Computation

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 19, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Samuel Teicher

  Authors

  • Georg Winkler

    • Microsoft Corporation

  • Fabiano Corsetti

  • Samuel Teicher

  • Mariya Romanova

  • Farhad Karimi

  • Roman Lutchyn

    • Microsoft Corporation

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• Simulation of Topological X-Gates via Braiding of Majorana Zero Modes in an Interacting Quantum Dot System

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: B. Pandey, S. Okamoto, P. Laurell, S. Rachel, E. Dagotto "Simulation of Topological X-Gates via Braiding of Majorana Zero Modes in an Interacting Quantum Dot System" arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.07273 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Bradraj Pandey

    • University of Missouri-Columbia

  Authors

  • Bradraj Pandey

    • University of Missouri-Columbia

  • Satoshi Okamoto

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Pontus Laurell

    • University of Missouri

  • Stephan Rachel

    • University of Melbourne

  • Elbio Dagotto

    • University of Tennessee

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• Coherently moving nonabelian anyons in quantum double models: theory and experiment

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Chiu Fan Bowen Lo

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Chiu Fan Bowen Lo

    • Harvard University

  • Anasuya Lyons

    • Harvard University

  • Ashvin Vishwanath

    • Harvard University

  • Ruben Verresen

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• Critical Information Phase: Decoding Z_N Toric Codes under Decoherence

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Akash Vijay

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Akash Vijay

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Jong Yeon Lee

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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• Topological Computation and Generative Artificial Intelligence

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 19, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Michael Glinsky

    • BNZ Energy Inc.

  Authors

  • Michael Glinsky

    • BNZ Energy Inc.

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