yangyuan16/TQCBraidGenerators

TQCBraidGenerators is a classic 'academic artifact' repository. With only 1 star and no forks over nearly three years, it serves purely as a reference implementation for the accompanying arXiv paper (2307.01892). The defensibility is low because the project lacks the software engineering rigor (packaging, CI/CD, documentation) required for adoption; it is a script-based implementation of mathematical formulas. However, the frontier risk is also low because the subject matter—Topological Quantum Computing (TQC)—is an extremely niche subfield of quantum computing, primarily pursued by Microsoft Research and specific academic groups. Frontier labs like OpenAI or Google are focused on superconducting or trapped-ion gate-based models and are unlikely to build specialized TQC braiding toolchains in the near future. The displacement horizon is long not because the code is irreplaceable, but because the physical hardware required to utilize these matrices (e.g., stable Majorana zero modes) is still in the experimental research phase. Competitors include Microsoft's LIQUi|> or Azure Quantum's specialized TQC simulators, which are much more mature and integrated into broader quantum stacks.