Symmetry protected topological phases under decoherence

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.16323v4
• Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:47:36 GMT
• Title: Symmetry protected topological phases under decoherence
• Authors: Jong Yeon Lee, Yi-Zhuang You, and Cenke Xu
• Abstract summary: In particular, we study a class of symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases under various types of decoherence. We demonstrate that the system can still retain the nontrivial topological information from the SPT ground state even under decoherence.
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• Abstract: We study ensembles described by density matrices with potentially nontrivial topological features. In particular, we study a class of symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases under various types of decoherence, which can drive a pure SPT state into a mixed state. We demonstrate that the system can still retain the nontrivial topological information from the SPT ground state even under decoherence. In the "doubled Hilbert space", we provide a general definition for symmetry protected topological ensemble (SPT ensemble), and the main quantity that we investigate is various types of (boundary) anomalies in the doubled Hilbert space. We show that the notion of the strange correlator, previously proposed to as a diagnosis for the SPT ground states, can be generalized to capture these anomalies in mixed-state density matrices. Using both exact calculations of the stabilizer Hamiltonians and field theory evaluations, we demonstrate that under decoherence the nontrivial features of the SPT state can persist in the two types of strange correlators: type-I and type-II. We show that the nontrivial type-I strange correlator corresponds to the presence of the SPT information that can be efficiently identified and utilized from experiments, such as for the purpose of preparing for long-range entangled states. The nontrivial type-II strange correlator encodes the full topological response of the decohered mixed state density matrix, i.e., the information about the presence of the SPT state before decoherence. Therefore, our work provides a unified framework to understand decohered SPT phases from the information-theoretic viewpoint.

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