Circuit-based chatacterization of finite-temperature quantum phases and self-correcting quantum memory

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15204v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:55:15 GMT
• Title: Circuit-based chatacterization of finite-temperature quantum phases and self-correcting quantum memory
• Authors: Ruochen Ma, Vedika Khemani, Shengqi Sang,
• Abstract summary: We show that any system in the same thermal phase as a zero-temperature topological code coherently preserves quantum information for a macroscopically long time.<n>We provide explicit encoding and decoding channel circuits to encode information into, and decode it from, a system in thermal equilibrium.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Quantum phases at zero temperature can be characterized as equivalence classes under local unitary transformations: two ground states within a gapped phase can be transformed into each other via a local unitary circuit. We generalize this circuit-based characterization of phases to systems at finite-temperature thermal equilibrium described by Gibbs states. We construct a channel circuit that approximately transforms one Gibbs state into another provided the two are connected by a path in parameter space along which a certain correlation-decay condition holds. For finite-dimensional systems of linear size $L$ and approximation error $\epsilon$, the locality of the circuit is ${\rm polylog}({\rm poly}(L)/\epsilon)$. The correlation-decay condition, which we specify, is expected to be satisfied in the interior of many noncritical thermal phases, including those displaying discrete symmetry breaking and topological order. As an application, we show that any system in the same thermal phase as a zero-temperature topological code coherently preserves quantum information for a macroscopically long time, establishing self-correction as a universal property of thermal phases. As part of the proof, we provide explicit encoding and decoding channel circuits to encode information into, and decode it from, a system in thermal equilibrium.

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