Spontaneous strong symmetry breaking in open systems: Purification perspective

P Sala, S Gopalakrishnan, M Oshikawa, Y You - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We explore the effect of decoherence on many-body mixed states from a purification
perspective. Here, quantum channels map to unitary transformations acting on a purified …

Unconventional topological mixed-state transition and critical phase induced by self-dual coherent errors

YH Chen, T Grover - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
A topological phase can undergo a phase transition driven by anyon condensation. A
potential obstruction to such a mechanism could arise if there exists a symmetry between …

Spontaneous symmetry breaking in open quantum systems: strong, weak, and strong-to-weak

D Gu, Z Wang, Z Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19381, 2024 - arxiv.org
Depending on the coupling to the environment, symmetries of open quantum systems
manifest in two distinct forms, the strong and the weak. We study the spontaneous symmetry …

Intrinsic symmetry-protected topological mixed state from modulated symmetries and hierarchical structure of boundary anomaly

Y You, M Oshikawa - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We introduce a class of intrinsic symmetry-protected topological mixed state (mSPT) in open
quantum systems that feature modulated symmetries, such as dipole and subsystem …

Strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking in mixed quantum states

LA Lessa, R Ma, JH Zhang, Z Bi, M Cheng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Symmetry in mixed quantum states can manifest in two distinct forms: strong symmetry,
where each individual pure state in the quantum ensemble is symmetric with the same …

An analog of topological entanglement entropy for mixed states

TT Wang, M Song, ZY Meng, T Grover - arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.20500, 2024 - arxiv.org
We propose the convex-roof extension of quantum conditional mutual information (" co
(QCMI)") as a diagnostic of long-range entanglement in a mixed state. We focus primarily on …

Efficient Detection of Strong-To-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking via the R\'enyi-1 Correlator

Z Weinstein - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.23512, 2024 - arxiv.org
Strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (SWSSB) has recently emerged as a
universal feature of quantum mixed-state phases of matter. While various information …

Mixed-State Topological Order under Coherent Noises

S Lee, EG Moon - arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.03441, 2024 - arxiv.org
Mixed-state phases of matter under local decoherence have recently garnered significant
attention due to the ubiquitous presence of noise in current quantum processors. One of the …

Stabilizing Non-Abelian Topological Order against Heralded Noise via Local Lindbladian Dynamics

S Chirame, A Prem, S Gopalakrishnan… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
An important open question for the current generation of highly controllable quantum
devices is understanding which phases can be realized as stable steady-states under local …

Robust preparation of ground state phases under noisy imaginary time evolution

A Khindanov, Y Yao, T Iadecola - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.04285, 2024 - arxiv.org
Non-unitary state preparation protocols such as imaginary time evolution (ITE) offer
substantial advantages relative to unitary ones, including the ability to prepare certain long …