Hey guys,
I'm a computer science student attempting to understand a quantum algorithm that uses braid theory - something I'm completely unfamiliar. I've getting through the algorithm but I can't find any simple explanations of the following terms:
- Markov Trace
- Markov Property
For example, the following article tells me what a Markov trace is but it's out of my zone a bit:
@ARTICLE{markov, author = {{Orellana}, R. and {Ram}, A.}, title = "{Affine braids, Markov traces and the category O}", journal = {ArXiv Mathematics e-prints}, eprint = {arXiv:math/0401317}, keywords = {Representation Theory}, year = 2004, month = jan, adsurl = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004math......1317O}, adsnote = {Provided by the SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System} }
Can anyone explain what they are very simply? Thank you :).
EDIT: Sorry for being not specific enough, this is the paper I'm referring to:
@article{tutte, Author = {Aharonov D and Arad I and Eban E and Landau Z}, Journal = {Arxiv preprint quant-ph/0702008}, Title = {Polynomial Quantum Algorithms for Additive approximations of the Potts model and other Points of the Tutte Plane}, Year = {2007}}
I'm trying to get my head around how the Tutte polynomial is approximated using tensor networks in quantum computing. This is perhaps too specific now!
