A little bit of self-correction

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Autores principales: Kastoryano, Michael J., Kristensen, Lasse B., Chen, Chi-Fang, Gilyén, András
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Publicado: 2024
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author Kastoryano, Michael J.
Kristensen, Lasse B.
Chen, Chi-Fang
Gilyén, András
author_facet Kastoryano, Michael J.
Kristensen, Lasse B.
Chen, Chi-Fang
Gilyén, András
contents We investigate the emergence of stable subspaces in the low-temperature quantum thermal dynamics of finite spin chains. Our analysis reveals the existence of effective decoherence-free qudit subspaces, persisting for timescales exponential in $β$. Surprisingly, the appearance of metastable subspaces is not directly related to the entanglement structure of the ground state(s). Rather, they arise from symmetry relations in low-lying excited states. Despite their stability within a 'phase', practical realization of stable qubits is hindered by susceptibility to symmetry-breaking perturbations. This work highlights that there can be non-trivial quantum behavior in the thermal dynamics of noncommuting many body models, and opens the door to more extensive studies of self-correction in such systems.
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Kastoryano, Michael J.
Kristensen, Lasse B.
Chen, Chi-Fang
Gilyén, András
Quantum Physics
We investigate the emergence of stable subspaces in the low-temperature quantum thermal dynamics of finite spin chains. Our analysis reveals the existence of effective decoherence-free qudit subspaces, persisting for timescales exponential in $β$. Surprisingly, the appearance of metastable subspaces is not directly related to the entanglement structure of the ground state(s). Rather, they arise from symmetry relations in low-lying excited states. Despite their stability within a 'phase', practical realization of stable qubits is hindered by susceptibility to symmetry-breaking perturbations. This work highlights that there can be non-trivial quantum behavior in the thermal dynamics of noncommuting many body models, and opens the door to more extensive studies of self-correction in such systems.
title A little bit of self-correction
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14970