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Non-invertible symmetry-protected topological order in a group-based cluster state

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2025-06-19 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

Despite growing interest in beyond-group symmetries in quantum condensed matter systems, there are relatively few microscopic lattice models explicitly realizing these symmetries, and many phenomena have yet to be studied at the microscopic level. We introduce a one-dimensional stabilizer Hamiltonian composed of group-based Pauli operators whose ground state is a G×Rep(G)G\times \text{Rep}(G)-symmetric state: the G cluster stateG \textit{ cluster state} introduced in Brell, New Journal of Physics 17, 023029 (2015) [at http://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/2/023029]. We show that this state lies in a symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase protected by G×Rep(G)G\times \text{Rep}(G) symmetry, distinct from the symmetric product state by a duality argument. We identify several signatures of SPT order, namely protected edge modes, string order parameters, and topological response. We discuss how GG cluster states may be used as a universal resource for measurement-based quantum computation, explicitly working out the case where GG is a semidirect product of abelian groups.

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@article{arxiv.2312.09272,
  title  = {Non-invertible symmetry-protected topological order in a group-based cluster state},
  author = {Christopher Fechisin and Nathanan Tantivasadakarn and Victor V. Albert},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.09272},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

30+13 pages, 6+1 figures; v2: added Sec IV.C, Appendix I, and several references; v3: published version