Topological response in open quantum systems with weak symmetries

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02941v1
• Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2025 18:00:10 GMT
• Title: Topological response in open quantum systems with weak symmetries
• Authors: Ze-Min Huang, Sebastian Diehl, Xiao-Qi Sun,
• Abstract summary: In open quantum systems, the interaction of the system with its environment gives rise to two types of symmetry.<n>We show that weak symmetries can protect topological responses that distinguish different phases of matter.<n>In particular, we show that the coupling to the environment can induce a phase transition to a state protected by weak symmetries.
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• Abstract: In open quantum systems, the interaction of the system with its environment gives rise to two types of symmetry: a strong one, where the system's symmetry charge is conserved exactly, and a weak one, where the symmetry charge can be exchanged with the environment but remains conserved on average. While generic open quantum systems feature weak symmetries only, the symmetry protected topological response for bosonic/spin systems has only been considered in the stricter setup with additional strong symmetries. Here, we address the generic case and demonstrate that weak symmetries alone can protect topological responses that distinguish different phases of matter. For bosonic systems, focusing on one-dimensional mixed states described by locally purifiable density operators, we propose a quantized response characterizing qualitatively distinct phases. It is detectable via the decay behavior of different string order parameters. We validate our general results through a noisy Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki model. In particular, we show that the coupling to the environment can induce a phase transition to a state protected by weak symmetries, without a pure-state or strong-symmetry analog.

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