Emergence of synthetic twist defects in the surface code under local perturbation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10839v1
• Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 16:54:01 GMT
• Title: Emergence of synthetic twist defects in the surface code under local perturbation
• Abstract summary: Topologically-ordered quantum states with Abelian excitations can host defects that obey effective non-Abelian statistics.<n>We numerically study the spectral properties of synthetic defects in a model system.
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• Abstract: Topologically-ordered quantum states with Abelian excitations can host defects that obey effective non-Abelian statistics, in principle allowing for quantum information processing via defect braiding. These extrinsic defects (or twists) are typically studied as static features of the lattice. However, an alternative proposal considers how an underlying topologically ordered quantum substrate can be locally perturbed to create and manipulate synthetic defects \cite{you_synthetic_2013}. Unfortunately, while largely referenced, elements of this proposal were never systematically studied. Understanding the energy spectrum is particularly important in finite size and finitely perturbed systems, which are crucial for experimental realizations. In this work we announce a significant step in this direction by explicitly constructing, simplifying, and numerically studying the spectral properties of synthetic defects in a model system. First, we introduce two alternative representations of this problem in both spin and Majorana languages. In the former we describe emergent virtual symmetries which constrain and simplify the problem and in the latter we show a direct connection to Kitaev's well-known Majorana chain. We utilize these simplifications to perform numerical calculations to indicate the location of the quantum phase transition driving the emergence of the synthetic defects. We conclude by discussing key steps for future work to more clearly and completely study this phenomena.

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