Profusion of Symmetry-Protected Qubits from Stable Ergodicity Breaking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20393v1
• Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:30:06 GMT
• Title: Profusion of Symmetry-Protected Qubits from Stable Ergodicity Breaking
• Authors: Thomas Iadecola, Rahul Nandkishore,
• Abstract summary: We show how combining a discrete symmetry with topological space fragmentation can give rise to exponentially many topologically stable qubits protected by a single discrete symmetry.<n>We also comment on the combination of symmetry enrichment and topological fragmentation more generally, and the implications for use of systems exhibiting Hilbert space fragmentation as quantum memories.
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• Abstract: We show how combining a discrete symmetry with topological Hilbert space fragmentation can give rise to exponentially many topologically stable qubits protected by a single discrete symmetry. We illustrate this explicitly with the example of the $\mathsf{CZ}_p$ model, where the encoded qubits are stable to arbitrary symmetry-respecting perturbations for parametrically long times, substantially enhancing the robustness of a recently proposed construction based on nontopological fragmentation. In this model, the encoded qubits naturally come in pairs for which a universal set of transversal logical gates can be performed, ruling out (by the Eastin-Knill theorem) the possibility of using them for quantum error correction. We also comment on the combination of symmetry enrichment and topological fragmentation more generally, and the implications for use of systems exhibiting Hilbert space fragmentation as quantum memories.

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