Protecting topological order by dynamical localization
Quantum Physics
2021-03-25 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
As a prototype model of topological quantum memory, two-dimensional toric code is genuinely immune to generic local static perturbations, but fragile at finite temperature and also after non-equilibrium time evolution at zero temperature. We show that dynamical localization induced by disorder makes the time evolution a local unitary transformation at all times, which keeps topological order robust after a quantum quench. We verify this conclusion by investigating the Wilson loop expectation value and topological entanglement entropy. Our results suggest that the two dimensional topological quantum memory can be dynamically robust at zero temperature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2102.03046,
title = {Protecting topological order by dynamical localization},
author = {Yu Zeng and Alioscia Hamma and Yu-Ran Zhang and Jun-Peng Cao and Heng Fan and Wu-Ming Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.03046},
year = {2021}
}
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7+11 pages, 2+5 figures