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Bulgarian Journal of Physics
Print: 1310-0157 Online: 1314-2666
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RECOGNIZED BY THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY 
Bulg. J. Phys. vol.35 no.4 (2008), pp. 241-256
Spin Networks and Quantum Computation
L.H. Kauffman1, S.J. Lomonaco Jr.2
1Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (m/c 249), 851 South Morgan Street, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7045, USA
2Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
go back1Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (m/c 249), 851 South Morgan Street, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7045, USA
2Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
Abstract. We review the q-deformed spin network approach to Topological Quantum Field Theory and apply these methods to produce unitary representations of the braid groups that are dense in the unitary groups. The simplest case of these models is the Fibonacci model, itself universal for quantum computation. We here formulate these braid group representations in a form suitable for computation and algebraic work.