Learning Potts Models and $Z_3$ Toric Codes: Higher and Ordinary Nishimori Criticality

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.20268v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:06:53 GMT
• Title: Learning Potts Models and $Z_3$ Toric Codes: Higher and Ordinary Nishimori Criticality
• Abstract summary: We identify a $it higher$ Nishimori line in the learning phase diagram of the $2D$ $q$-state Potts model.<n>This line meets the critical temperature line of the Potts model, in a $it higher$ Nishimori critical point.
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• Abstract: Motivated by a previous Ising study, we identify a ${\it higher}$ Nishimori line in the learning phase diagram of the $2D$ $q$-state Potts model $(2 < q\leq 4)$ under bond-energy measurements. This ${\it higher}$ Nishimori line meets the critical temperature line of the Potts model, in a ${\it higher}$ Nishimori critical point -- a tricritical point at finite inference strength that separates a paramagnetic, a ferromagnetic and a 'spin-glass' phase. With analytical tools, we discuss the general structure of the rich phase diagram, which contains two unstable and three stable fixed points, and obtain a number of exact results for universal quantities, including the decay exponent of the Edwards-Anderson correlator, using a Gaussian measurement protocol which allows for exact calculations. Using extensive numerical tools, we confirm these statements for a generic, discrete $q$-state measurement protocol and determine precise numerical estimates for the location of higher and ordinary Nishimori critical points as well as RG flows between the various fixed points. We also discuss the Casimir effective central charges of the critical points in the learning phase diagram, and their monotonic ${\it decrease}$ along measurement-induced RG flows, as established non-perturbatively by the c-effective theorem and its extensions, and contrast it to the monotonic increase along the corresponding RG flows in the random-bond Potts model. Finally, we discuss a general argument based on ${\it Elitzur's \; theorem}$ that establishes stability of the ordinary Nishimori critical points in their respective learning phase diagrams. Equivalently, our results describe a monitored deformed $\mathbb{Z}_q$ toric code where the tricritical ${\it higher}$ Nishimori point is an 'information' critical point that separates stable quantum, classical, and no memory phases.

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