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Dynamical Phase Error in Interacting Topological Quantum Memories

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-09-14 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

A local Hamiltonian with Topological Quantum Order (TQO) has a robust ground state degeneracy that makes it an excellent quantum memory candidate. This memory can be corrupted however if part of the state leaves the protected ground state manifold and returns later with a dynamically accrued phase error. Here we analyse how TQO suppresses this process and use this to quantify the degree to which spectral densities in different topological sectors are correlated. We provide numerical verification of our results by modelling an interacting p-wave superconducting wire.

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@article{arxiv.2101.00022,
  title  = {Dynamical Phase Error in Interacting Topological Quantum Memories},
  author = {Luuk Coopmans and Shane Dooley and Ian Jubb and Kevin Kavanagh and Graham Kells},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.00022},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Accepted Version. 10 pages (including references and appendix), 6 figures

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