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Quantum subsystem codes, CFTs and their $\mathbb{Z}_2$-gaugings

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-11-26 v2 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons Quantum Physics

Abstract

We construct Narain conformal field theories (CFTs) from quantum subsystem codes, a more comprehensive class of quantum error-correcting codes than quantum stabilizer codes, for qudit systems of prime dimensions. The resulting code CFTs exhibit a global Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 symmetry, enabling us to perform the Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-gauging to derive their orbifolded and fermionized theories when the symmetry is non-anomalous. We classify a subset of these subsystem code CFTs using weighted oriented graphs and enumerate those with small central charges. Consequently, we identify several bosonic code CFTs self-dual under the Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-orbifold, new supersymmetric code CFTs, and a few fermionic code CFTs with spontaneously broken supersymmetry.

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@article{arxiv.2405.18145,
  title  = {Quantum subsystem codes, CFTs and their $\mathbb{Z}_2$-gaugings},
  author = {Keiichi Ando and Kohki Kawabata and Tatsuma Nishioka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.18145},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

47 pages, 1 figure; v2: typos corrected, minor changes, published version

R2 v1 2026-06-28T16:43:48.306Z