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Liquid crystals have proven to provide a versatile experimental and theoretical platform for studying topological objects such as vortices, skyrmions, and hopfions. In parallel, in hard condensed matter physics, the concept of topological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-02-13 Cuiling Meng , Jin-Sheng Wu , Žiga Kos , Jörn Dunkel , Cristiano Nisoli , Ivan I. Smalyukh

We investigate the two-dimensional frustrated quantum Heisenberg model with bond disorder on nearest-neighbor couplings using the recently introduced Foundation Neural-Network Quantum States framework, which enables accurate and efficient…

We determine the conditions under which topological order survives a rapid quantum quench. Specifically, we consider the case where a quantum spin system is prepared in the ground state of the Toric Code Model and, after the quench, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-08 D. I. Tsomokos , A. Hamma , W. Zhang , S. Haas , R. Fazio

It is pointed out that quantum states, in general, contain a new kind of orders that cannot be characterized by symmetry. A concept of quantum order is introduced to describe such orders. As two concrete examples, we discussed quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-07 Xiao-Gang Wen

Topological quantum computation is a promising technique to achieve large-scale, error-corrected computation. Quantum hardware is used to create a large, 3-dimensional lattice of entangled qubits while performing computation requires…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-04 Alexandru Paler , Simon J. Devitt , Kae Nemoto , Ilia Polian

We broaden the scope of quantum field theory by introducing a general class of discrete gauge theories that realize either topological order or fracton behavior across dimensions. We start from translation-invariant systems endowed with…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-21 Guilherme Delfino , Claudio Chamon , Yizhi You

Spin glass systems as lattices of disordered magnets with random interactions have important implications within the theory of magnetization and applications to a wide-range of hard combinatorial optimization problems. Nevertheless, despite…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-28 Fredrik Hasselgren , Max O. Al-Hasso , Amy Searle , Joseph Tindall , Marko von der Leyen

In this Perspective article, we explore some of the promising spin and topology material platforms (e.g. spins in semi- and superconductors, skyrmionic, topological and 2D materials) being developed for such quantum components as qubits,…

Temperature in thermodynamics is synonymous with disorder, and responsible for ultimately destroying ordered phases. Here, we show an unusual magnetic transition where, with increasing the temperature of elemental neodymium, long-range…

Ordered phases of matter, such as solids, ferromagnets, superfluids, or quantum topological order, typically only exist at low temperatures. Despite this conventional wisdom, we present explicit local models in which all such phases persist…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Yiqiu Han , Xiaoyang Huang , Zohar Komargodski , Andrew Lucas , Fedor K. Popov

We begin with an introduction to topological order using Wegner's quantum $Z_2$ gauge theory on the square lattice: the topological state is characterized by the expulsion of defects, carrying $Z_2$ magnetic flux. The interplay between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-11-08 Subir Sachdev

The physical realization of $\mathbb Z_2$ topological order as encountered in the paradigmatic toric code has proven to be an elusive goal. We predict that this phase of matter can be realized in a two-dimensional array of Rydberg atoms…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-08-31 Ruben Verresen , Mikhail D. Lukin , Ashvin Vishwanath

Topologically ordered phase has emerged as one of most exciting concepts that not only broadens our understanding of phases of matter, but also has been found to have potential application in fault-tolerant quantum computation. The direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Zhihuang Luo , Chao Lei , Jun Li , Xinfang Nie , Zhaokai Li , Xinhua Peng , Jiangfeng Du

Quantum phases of matter are resources for notions of quantum computation. In this work, we establish a new link between concepts of quantum information theory and condensed matter physics by presenting a unified understanding of…

Predicting and analyzing global behaviour of complex systems is challenging due to the intricate nature of their component interactions. Recent work has started modelling complex systems using networks endowed with multiway interactions…

Topological order (long-range entanglement) is a new type of order that beyond Landau's symmetry breaking theory. This concept plays important roles in modern condensed matter physics. The topological entanglement entropy provides a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-29 Jingbo Wang

Topological states of matter are, generally, quantum liquids of conserved topological defects. We establish this by constructing and analyzing topological field theories which describe the dynamics of field singularities using gauge fields.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-17 Predrag Nikolić

We demonstrate that multipartite entanglement, witnessed by the quantum Fisher information (QFI), can characterize topological quantum phase transitions in the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ toric code model on a square lattice with external fields. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Yu-Ran Zhang , Yu Zeng , Tao Liu , Heng Fan , J. Q. You , Franco Nori

Here we investigate the connection between topological order and the geometric entanglement, as measured by the logarithm of the overlap between a given state and its closest product state of blocks. We do this for a variety of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-28 Roman Orus , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Oliver Buerschaper , Maarten Van den Nest

We introduce the concept of nested topological order in a class of exact quantum lattice Hamiltonian models with non-abelian discrete gauge symmetry. The topological order present in the models can be partially destroyed by introducing a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 H. Bombin , M. A. Martin-Delgado