On Quantum Computation, Anyons, and Categories

  • Andreas Blass ,
  • Yuri Gurevich

Springer series on Outstanding Contributions to Logic |

We explain the use of category theory in describing certain sorts of anyons. Yoneda’s lemma leads to a simplification of that description. For the particular case of Fibonacci anyons, we also exhibit some calculations that seem to be known to the experts but not explicit in the literature.