The topological spectrum of high dimensional quantum states

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12540v1
• Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:13:24 GMT
• Title: The topological spectrum of high dimensional quantum states
• Abstract summary: Topology has emerged as a fundamental property of many systems, manifesting in cosmology, condensed matter, high-energy physics and waves.<n>Here, we harness the synthetic dimensions of orbital angular momentum to discover a rich tapestry of topological maps in high dimensional spaces.<n>We show that the topological spectrum allows the simultaneous ability to be robust to and probe for perturbation, the latter made possible by observing emergent signatures in the non-topological (trivial) spaces of the spectrum.
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• Abstract: Topology has emerged as a fundamental property of many systems, manifesting in cosmology, condensed matter, high-energy physics and waves. Despite the rich textures, the topology has largely been limited to low dimensional systems that can be characterised by a single topological number, e.g., a Chern number in matter or a Skyrme number in waves. Here, using photonic quantum states as an example, we harness the synthetic dimensions of orbital angular momentum (OAM) to discover a rich tapestry of topological maps in high dimensional spaces. Moving beyond spin textured fields, we demonstrate topologies using only one degree of freedom, the OAM of light. By interpreting the density matrix as a non-Abelian Higgs potential, we are able to predict topologies that exist as high dimensional manifolds which remarkably can be deconstructed into a multitude of simpler maps from disks to disks and spheres to spheres, giving rise to the notion of a topological spectrum rather than a topological number. We confirm this experimentally using quantum wave functions with an underlying topology of 48 dimensions and a topological spectrum spanning over 17000 maps, an encoding alphabet with enormous potential. We show that the topological spectrum allows the simultaneous ability to be robust to and probe for perturbation, the latter made possible by observing emergent signatures in the non-topological (trivial) spaces of the spectrum. Our experimental approach benefits from easy implementation, while our theoretical framework is cast in a manner that can be extrapolated to any particle type, dimension and degree of freedom. Our work opens exciting future possibilities for quantum sensing and communication with topology.

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