Speaker
Sakura Schafer-Nameki
(Oxford University)
Description
I will give an overview of recent developments using the Symmetry TFT to characterize phases of matter with categorical symmetries, which turns out to have a very curious, and potentially far-reaching implication in the construction of universal quantum computation in 2D lattice models -- namely the construction of transversal phase gates.
This gives a surprising connection between advances in classification of phases on the one hand and applications in quantum computation.