Topological magic response in quantum spin chains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16673v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:43:03 GMT
• Title: Topological magic response in quantum spin chains
• Authors: Ritu Nehra, Poetri Sonya Tarabunga, Martina Frau, Mario Collura, Emanuele Tirrito, Marcello Dalmonte,
• Abstract summary: We introduce the concept of topological magic response, the ability of a state to spread over stabilizer space when perturbed by finite-depth non-Clifford circuits.<n>Unlike a topological invariant or order parameter, this response function probes how a phase reacts to non-Clifford perturbations.<n>We show that SPT phases doped with $T$ gates support robust topological magic response, while trivial phases remain featureless.
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• Abstract: Topological matter provides natural platforms for robust, non-local information storage, central to quantum error correction. Yet, while the relation between entanglement and topology is well established, little is known about the role of nonstabilizerness (or magic), a pivotal concept in fault-tolerant quantum computation, in topological phases. We introduce the concept of topological magic response, the ability of a state to spread over stabilizer space when perturbed by finite-depth non-Clifford circuits. Unlike a topological invariant or order parameter, this response function probes how a phase reacts to non-Clifford perturbations, revealing the presence of non-local quantum correlations. In Ising-type spin chains, we show that symmetry-broken and paramagnetic phases lack such a response, whereas symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases always display it. To capture this, we utilize a combination of stabilizer Rényi entropies that, in analogy with topological entanglement entropy, isolates non-locally stored information. Using exact analytic computations and matrix product states simulations based on an algorithmic technique we introduce, we show that SPT phases doped with $T$ gates support robust topological magic response, while trivial phases remain featureless.

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