Topologically Protected Learning from Exceptional Point Braiding: Toward Braid Programming

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15829v1
• Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:02:33 GMT
• Title: Topologically Protected Learning from Exceptional Point Braiding: Toward Braid Programming
• Abstract summary: We present a framework for topological learning based on exceptional point (EP) braiding in a non-Hermitian Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonian.
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• Abstract: We present a framework for topological learning based on exceptional point (EP) braiding in a non-Hermitian Bogoliubov-de Gennes Hamiltonian. A closed algebraic equation for the EP super-surface is derived; through momentum quantisation in finite systems, it predicts the exact number and parameter positions of all EPs in real space, irrespective of system size. The EP topology is characterised by two quantised invariants the state-swap fidelity and the normalised Berry phase which cannot both be zero for a topological EP. A complete topological map shows that all EPs lie within a specefic region. Adiabatic encirclements confirm robust state swapping and yield a universal set of braid gates, including Pauli-X, Pauli-Y, Pauli-Z, a Hadamard-like gate, the T-gate, and a SWAP operation, with the special case where a is 0, providing additional phase gates. Building on these generators, we reformulate learning as braid programming a discrete search over the braid group that replaces gradient descent on continuous weights with combinatorial optimisation. A proof-of-concept genetic search successfully discovers short braid words that reproduce the standard Hadamard gate and the H.Z gate with perfect fidelity. This paradigm offers inherent noise immunity, catastrophic-forgetting prevention through compositional concatenation, and guaranteed generalisation by mathematical construction, establishing EP braiding as a promising substrate for robust, interpretable, and topologically protected neuromorphic computation.

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