Self-dual random-plaquette gauge model and the quantum toric code

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2004.03.006zbMATH Open1107.81318arXivhep-th/0310279OpenAlexW2095201368MaRDI QIDQ874062FDOQ874062

Hidetoshi Nishimori, Koujin Takeda

Publication date: 4 April 2007

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the four-dimensional Z_2 random-plaquette lattice gauge theory as a model of topological quantum memory, the toric code in particular. In this model, the procedure of quantum error correction works properly in the ordered (Higgs) phase, and phase boundary between the ordered (Higgs) and disordered (confinement) phases gives the accuracy threshold of error correction. Using self-duality of the model in conjunction with the replica method, we show that this model has exactly the same mathematical structure as that of the two dimensional random-bond Ising model, which has been studied very extensively. This observation enables us to derive a conjecture on the exact location of the multicritical point (accuracy threshold) of the model, p_c=0.889972..., and leads to several nontrivial results including bounds on the accuracy threshold in three dimensions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0310279

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Cites Work

• Fault-tolerant quantum computation by anyons
• Statistical Field Theory
• Topological quantum memory
• Statistical Physics of Spin Glasses and Information Processing

Cited In (9)

• On Cayley Graphs, Surface Codes, and the Limits of Homological Coding for Quantum Error Correction
• Self-duality and phase structure of the 4D random-plaquette \(\mathbb Z_{2}\) gauge model
• Duality in finite-dimensional spin glasses
• Critical study of hierarchical lattice renormalization group in magnetic ordered and quenched disordered systems: Ising and Blume-Emery-Griffiths models
• Generalized toric codes coupled to thermal baths
• Classification of quantum phases and topology of logical operators in an exactly solved model of quantum codes
• Feasibility of self-correcting quantum memory and thermal stability of topological order
• A proposal for self-correcting stabilizer quantum memories in 3 dimensions (or slightly less)
• Homological error correction: Classical and quantum codes

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