Magic of Kitaev spin liquids
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.25929v1
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:41:51 GMT
- Title: Magic of Kitaev spin liquids
- Abstract summary: We study magic of quantum spin liquids (QSLs) by computing the stabilizer Rényi entropy (SRE) of the Kitaev honeycomb model.<n>We show that magic is largest in the gapless phase, where subleading volume-law corrections indicate nonlocal contributions.<n>At the topological phase transition, SRE exhibits universal scaling dictated by critical exponents.
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- Abstract: Quantum spin liquids (QSLs) are long-range entangled phases of matter and a natural setting for exploring how quantum correlations generate quantum complexity. Motivated by the emergence of magic, or nonstabilizerness, as a diagnostic of many-body complexity beyond entanglement, we study magic of QSLs by computing the stabilizer Rényi entropy (SRE) of the Kitaev honeycomb model. We derive a correspondence between Pauli strings and products of itinerant Majorana operators in the model's free-fermion description; this enables the sampling of SRE using an optimized algorithm for Gaussian states in systems with thousands of spins. Our results show that magic is largest in the gapless phase, where subleading volume-law corrections indicate nonlocal contributions, while in the gapped phases, SRE decreases in quantitative agreement with a perturbative expansion that we develop in the anisotropic limit. At the topological phase transition, SRE exhibits universal scaling dictated by critical exponents.
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