Topology of Quantum Gaussian States and Operations

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Authors: Zongping Gong, Tommaso Guaita 

Publication date: 9 June 2021

Abstract: As is well-known in the context of topological insulators and superconductors, short-range-correlated fermionic pure Gaussian states with fundamental symmetries are systematically classified by the periodic table. We revisit this topic from a quantum-information-inspired operational perspective without referring to any Hamiltonians, and apply the formalism to bosonic Gaussian states as well as (both fermionic and bosonic) locality-preserving unitary Gaussian operations. We find that while bosonic Gaussian states are all trivial, there exist nontrivial bosonic Gaussian operations that cannot be continuously deformed into the identity under the locality and symmetry constraint. Moreover, we unveil unexpectedly complicated relations between fermionic Gaussian states and operations, pointing especially out that some of the former can be disentangled by the latter under the same symmetry constraint, while some cannot. In turn, we find that some topological operations are genuinely dynamical, in the sense that they cannot create any topological states from a trivial one, yet they are not connected to the identity. The notions of disentanglability and genuinely dynamical topology can be unified in a general picture of unitary-to-state homomorphism, and apply equally to interacting topological phases and quantum cellular automata.

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