Critical non-equilibrium phases from noisy topological memories
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| author | Negari, Amir-Reza Sahu, Subhayan Behrends, Jan Béri, Benjamin Hsieh, Timothy H. |
| author_facet | Negari, Amir-Reza Sahu, Subhayan Behrends, Jan Béri, Benjamin Hsieh, Timothy H. |
| contents | We demonstrate the existence of an extended non-equilibrium critical phase, characterized by sub-exponential decay of conditional mutual information (CMI), in the surface code subject to heralded random Pauli measurement channels. By mapping the resulting mixed state to the ensemble of completely packed loops on a square lattice, we relate the extended phase to the Goldstone phase of the loop model. In particular, CMI is controlled by the characteristic length scale of loops, and we use analytic results of the latter to establish polylogarithmic decay of CMI in the critical phase. We find that the critical phase retains partial logical information that can be recovered by a global decoder, but not by any quasi-local decoder. To demonstrate this, we introduce a diagnostic called punctured coherent information which provides a necessary condition for quasi-local decoding. |
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| spellingShingle | Critical non-equilibrium phases from noisy topological memories Negari, Amir-Reza Sahu, Subhayan Behrends, Jan Béri, Benjamin Hsieh, Timothy H. Quantum Physics Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons We demonstrate the existence of an extended non-equilibrium critical phase, characterized by sub-exponential decay of conditional mutual information (CMI), in the surface code subject to heralded random Pauli measurement channels. By mapping the resulting mixed state to the ensemble of completely packed loops on a square lattice, we relate the extended phase to the Goldstone phase of the loop model. In particular, CMI is controlled by the characteristic length scale of loops, and we use analytic results of the latter to establish polylogarithmic decay of CMI in the critical phase. We find that the critical phase retains partial logical information that can be recovered by a global decoder, but not by any quasi-local decoder. To demonstrate this, we introduce a diagnostic called punctured coherent information which provides a necessary condition for quasi-local decoding. |
| title | Critical non-equilibrium phases from noisy topological memories |
| topic | Quantum Physics Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10792 |