Statistical Mechanics and Symmetries of Non-Abelian Anyon Proliferation: From Deformation to Decoherence

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12527v1
• Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:00:03 GMT
• Title: Statistical Mechanics and Symmetries of Non-Abelian Anyon Proliferation: From Deformation to Decoherence
• Abstract summary: Topological quantum computation relies on braiding non-Abelian anyons.<n>We show that the instability of topological order to wavefunction deformations are generically captured by stat-mech models.<n>We show that proliferation of two non-Abelian anyon species parasitically condenses a shared Abelian-anyon fusion outcome.
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• Abstract: Topological quantum computation relies on braiding non-Abelian anyons, but requires the underlying topological order to survive imperfect state preparation and environmental noise. We show that the instability of topological order to wavefunction deformations and to decoherence, with the latter probed by syndrome distributions, are generically captured by stat-mech models whose symmetries naturally expose the corrupting anyonic excitations. As an example, we combine this framework with Monte-Carlo simulations to resolve the stability of $D_4$ topological order under deformations and quantum channels that proliferate multiple non-Abelian anyon species that individually are unable to condense. We show that beyond a finite threshold, proliferation of two non-Abelian anyon species parasitically condenses a shared Abelian-anyon fusion outcome, destroying the topological order. Our symmetry-based approach sharply differentiates the resulting trivial phase from that obtained by condensing all Abelian charges; in other words, the trivial phase "remembers" which anyons condensed. This framework provides a first step into identifying the relevant symmetry for optimal decoders, conditioned on syndrome measurements, of non-Abelian topological order.

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