Local Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28967v1
• Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 18:16:15 GMT
• Title: Local Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
• Abstract summary: We propose a local notion of strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (SW- SSB) through a local one-point fidelity correlator.<n>We show that key features of SW- SSB, including stability under finite-depth symmetric channels and long-range conditional mutual information, persist within this local framework.<n>For critical states, the local one-point fidelity correlator defines an interesting class of defect problems.
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• Abstract: We propose a local notion of strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (SW-SSB), through a local one-point fidelity correlator. Compared with the previous definition in terms of a two-point fidelity correlator, our local formulation offers two key advantages: (1) it is easier to detect in large systems: for a system of size $N$ and with ${\rm poly}(N)$ amount of resources, one can detect the local fidelity order up to volume scale $O(\log(N))$; and (2) the local SW-SSB order remains well defined in the thermodynamic limit, where the density matrix itself is not well defined. We show that key features of SW-SSB, including stability under finite-depth symmetric channels and long-range conditional mutual information, persist within this local framework. Our definition is conceptually analogous to local thermalization, as exemplified by pure states obeying the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). For critical states, the local one-point fidelity correlator defines an interesting class of defect problems. We demonstrate the applicability of the local formulation through several concrete examples, and derive the universal scaling behavior of the local fidelity correlator in a range of critical systems, including ground states of conformal field theories as well as ballistic and diffusive free-fermion metals.

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