Pauli stabilizer models of twisted quantum doubles
Abstract
We construct a Pauli stabilizer model for every two-dimensional Abelian topological order that admits a gapped boundary. Our primary example is a Pauli stabilizer model on four-dimensional qudits that belongs to the double semion (DS) phase of matter. The DS stabilizer Hamiltonian is constructed by condensing an emergent boson in a toric code, where the condensation is implemented by making certain two-body measurements. We rigorously verify the topological order of the DS stabilizer model by identifying an explicit finite-depth quantum circuit (with ancillary qubits) that maps its ground state subspace to that of a DS string-net model. We show that the construction of the DS stabilizer Hamiltonian generalizes to all twisted quantum doubles (TQDs) with Abelian anyons. This yields a Pauli stabilizer code on composite-dimensional qudits for each such TQD, implying that the classification of topological Pauli stabilizer codes extends well beyond stacks of toric codes - in fact, exhausting all Abelian anyon theories that admit a gapped boundary. We also demonstrate that symmetry-protected topological phases of matter characterized by type I and type II cocycles can be modeled by Pauli stabilizer Hamiltonians by gauging certain 1-form symmetries of the TQD stabilizer models.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2112.11394,
title = {Pauli stabilizer models of twisted quantum doubles},
author = {Tyler D. Ellison and Yu-An Chen and Arpit Dua and Wilbur Shirley and Nathanan Tantivasadakarn and Dominic J. Williamson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.11394},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
23+11 pages, 13 figures, published version, minor corrections to Fig. 3 and Eq. (133), corrected missing minus sign in Eq. (63)