Gapped Parent Hamiltonians for the Strongly Deformed Toric Code

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28740v1
• Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:01:31 GMT
• Title: Gapped Parent Hamiltonians for the Strongly Deformed Toric Code
• Abstract summary: Local non-unitary deformations of topologically ordered wavefunctions can drive transitions into peculiar states.<n>We construct local gapped parent Hamiltonians for strongly deformed toric code states.<n>We show that perimeter-law scaling of Wilson loops does not imply a spontaneously broken 1-form symmetry.
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• Abstract: Local non-unitary deformations of topologically ordered wavefunctions can drive transitions into peculiar states that challenge modern perspectives on gapped quantum matter. The strongly deformed toric code offers a curious case, hosting $m$ anyon condensation alongside perimeter-law scaling of Wilson loops charged under an exact 1-form symmetry---properties that typically do not coexist in gapped ground states. Nevertheless, we rigorously construct local gapped parent Hamiltonians for these strongly deformed toric code states. The Hamiltonians we construct are not strictly finite-range, but contain sums of Wilson loop operators whose coefficients decay exponentially in their diameter. If one adopts standard locality bounds used to define gapped phases---which allow for such exponentially decaying terms---our construction shows that these states realize a trivial gapped phase. Within this locality class, we demonstrate that perimeter-law scaling of Wilson loops does not imply a spontaneously broken 1-form symmetry, and from a dual perspective, that long-range ferromagnetic order and perimeter-law disorder parameter correlations can coexist in a 2D gapped ground state. We evade a recent no-go theorem [Sahay et al., arXiv:2503.01977] by relaxing its assumptions in a manner that we quantify as benign in the thermodynamic limit. More broadly, our results highlight that stronger notions of locality are necessary for prohibiting these counterintuitive properties within a gapped phase.

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