Feasibility of self-correcting quantum memory and thermal stability of topological order

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2011.06.001zbMATH Open1232.81012arXiv1103.1885OpenAlexW2062716497WikidataQ55969506 ScholiaQ55969506MaRDI QIDQ643656FDOQ643656

Authors: Beni Yoshida 

Publication date: 2 November 2011

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

Abstract: Recently, it has become apparent that the thermal stability of topologically ordered systems at finite temperature, as discussed in condensed matter physics, can be studied by addressing the feasibility of self-correcting quantum memory, as discussed in quantum information science. Here, with this correspondence in mind, we propose a model of quantum codes that may cover a large class of physically realizable quantum memory. The model is supported by a certain class of gapped spin Hamiltonians, called stabilizer Hamiltonians, with translation symmetries and a small number of ground states that does not grow with the system size. We show that the model does not work as self-correcting quantum memory due to a certain topological constraint on geometric shapes of its logical operators. This quantum coding theoretical result implies that systems covered or approximated by the model cannot have thermally stable topological order, meaning that no system can be stable against both thermal fluctuations and local perturbations simultaneously in two and three spatial dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1885

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zbMATH Keywords

entanglementtopological phasetopological quantum field theorythermal stabilityquantum coding theoryself-correcting quantum memorysrabilizer code

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum coding (general) (81P70) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Linear codes (general theory) (94B05) Other types of codes (94B60)

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