Intrinsic Error Thresholds in Nearly Critical Toric Codes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.14098v1
• Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:59:15 GMT
• Title: Intrinsic Error Thresholds in Nearly Critical Toric Codes
• Abstract summary: We study the protection of information in nearly critical topological quantum codes.<n>We show that a finite strength of Pauli decoherence remains necessary to irreversibly destroy information encoded in the ground-state manifold.
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• Abstract: We study the protection of information in nearly critical topological quantum codes, constructed by perturbing topological stabilizer codes towards continuous quantum phase transitions. Our focus is on the transverse-field toric code subjected to local Pauli decoherence. Despite the strong quantum fluctuations of anyons when the transverse field is tuned infinitesimally close to the critical point, we show that a finite strength of Pauli decoherence remains necessary to irreversibly destroy information encoded in the ground-state manifold. Using a replica statistical physics mapping for the coherent information, we show that decoherence can be understood as introducing a two-dimensional inter-replica defect within a three-dimensional replica statistical physics model. A field theoretical analysis shows that this defect is perturbatively irrelevant to the bulk critical point, and cannot renormalize the transverse field strength, leading to a finite error threshold. We argue that a qualitatively similar conclusion can be drawn for a broad class of nearly critical topological codes, under a variety of decoherence channels.

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