Confinement-Higgs transition in a disordered gauge theory and the accuracy threshold for quantum memory

DOI10.1016/S0003-4916(02)00019-2zbMath1023.81024arXivquant-ph/0207088MaRDI QIDQ1867221

Jim Harrington, Chenyang Wang, John Preskill

Publication date: 2 April 2003

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0207088

zbMATH Keywords

Monte Carlo simulations; quenched disorder; magnetic monopoles; excitations; Nishimori line; critical concentration; \(\pm J\) random-bond Ising model; \(\pm J\) random-plaquette \(Z_2\) gauge model; electric confinement; Higgs phase transition; one-dimensional flux tubes; storage of quantum information; topological error-correcting codes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65C05: Monte Carlo methods

81P68: Quantum computation

82B44: Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics

81T13: Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory

81V05: Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics

82B26: Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics

82C44: Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics

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