Experimental Preparation of Topologically Ordered States via Adiabatic Evolution

Understand

Topological orders are a class of exotic states of matter characterized by patterns of long-range entanglement.

• Certain topologically ordered systems are proposed as potential realization of fault-tolerant quantum computation.
• Topological orders can arise in two-dimensional spin-lattice models.
• In this paper, we engineer a time-dependent Hamiltonian to prepare a topologically ordered state through adiabatic evolution.