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Non-Abelian anyons prove capable of universal quantum computing

As of September 2026: Proposal made in 2003 while a Caltech graduate student

Researchers have shown that exotic quasiparticles called non-Abelian anyons can perform every operation a general-purpose quantum computer needs. Using 54 entangled qubits on Quantinuum's H2 trapped-ion processor, a team from the University of Chicago, Harvard, Stony Brook University, and Quantinuum combined two operations, braiding and fusion, to reach universal computation for the first time in a non-Abelian code.

Updated Sep 26