Symmetry Protected Topological Phases of Mixed States in the Doubled Space
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13280v3
- Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 23:59:08 GMT
- Title: Symmetry Protected Topological Phases of Mixed States in the Doubled Space
- Authors: Ruochen Ma, Alex Turzillo,
- Abstract summary: We study the interplay of symmetry and topology in quantum many-body mixed states.
In a phenomenon not seen in pure states, mixed states can exhibit average symmetries.
We study the patterns of spontaneous symmetry breaking ( SSB) of mixed states.
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- Abstract: The interplay of symmetry and topology in quantum many-body mixed states has recently garnered significant interest. In a phenomenon not seen in pure states, mixed states can exhibit average symmetries -- symmetries that act on component states while leaving the ensemble invariant. In this work, we systematically characterize symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases of short-range entangled (SRE) mixed states of spin systems -- protected by both average and exact symmetries -- by studying their pure Choi states in a doubled Hilbert space, where the familiar notions and tools for SRE and SPT pure states apply. This advantage of the doubled space comes with a price: extra symmetries as well as subtleties around how hermiticity and positivity of the original density matrix constrain the possible SPT invariants. Nevertheless, the doubled space perspective allows us to obtain a systematic classification of mixed-state SPT (MSPT) phases. We also investigate the robustness of MSPT invariants under symmetric finite-depth quantum channels, the bulk-boundary correspondence for MSPT phases, and the consequences of the MSPT invariants for the separability of mixed states and the symmetry-protected sign problem. In addition to MSPT phases, we study the patterns of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) of mixed states, including the phenomenon of exact-to-average SSB, and the order parameters that detect them. Mixed state SSB is related to an ingappability constraint on symmetric Lindbladian dynamics.
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