Signatures of Topological Symmetries on a Noisy Quantum Simulator

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14817v1
• Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:51:56 GMT
• Title: Signatures of Topological Symmetries on a Noisy Quantum Simulator
• Authors: Christopher Lamb, Robert M. Konik, Hubert Saleur, Ananda Roy,
• Abstract summary: Topological symmetries, invertible and otherwise, play a fundamental role in the investigation of quantum field theories.<n>Quantum simulators based on engineered solid-state devices provide a novel alternative to conventional condensed matter systems for realizing these models.<n>In this work, eigenstates of impurity Hamiltonians and loop operators associated with the topological symmetries for the Ising conformal field theory are realized on IBM's Kingston simulator.
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• Abstract: Topological symmetries, invertible and otherwise, play a fundamental role in the investigation of quantum field theories. Despite their ubiquitous importance across a multitude of disciplines ranging from string theory to condensed matter physics, controlled realizations of models exhibiting these symmetries in physical systems are rare. Quantum simulators based on engineered solid-state devices provide a novel alternative to conventional condensed matter systems for realizing these models. In this work, eigenstates of impurity Hamiltonians and loop operators associated with the topological symmetries for the Ising conformal field theory in two space-time dimensions are realized on IBM's Kingston simulator. The relevant states are created on the quantum device using a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm. The latter is based on a variation of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm ansatz combined with the quantum natural gradient optimization method. Signatures of the topological symmetry are captured by measuring correlation functions of different qubit operators with results obtained from the quantum device in reasonable agreement with those obtained from classical computations. The current work demonstrates the viability of noisy quantum simulators as platforms for investigating low-dimensional quantum field theories with direct access to observables that are often difficult to probe in conventional condensed matter experiments.

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