Resolving spurious topological entanglement entropy in stabilizer codes

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Main Authors: Han, Peilun, Liang, Zijian, Wang, Yifei, Yang, Bowen, Gu, Yingfei, Chen, Yu-An
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author Han, Peilun
Liang, Zijian
Wang, Yifei
Yang, Bowen
Gu, Yingfei
Chen, Yu-An
author_facet Han, Peilun
Liang, Zijian
Wang, Yifei
Yang, Bowen
Gu, Yingfei
Chen, Yu-An
contents Topological entanglement entropy (TEE) is a key diagnostic of long-range entanglement in two-dimensional gapped phases of matter, but it can suffer from spurious contributions that overestimate the total quantum dimension of the underlying topological order. In this work, we identify the microscopic origin of spurious TEE and introduce a concave partition for computing the Levin-Wen TEE of translation-invariant stabilizer codes of prime-dimensional qudits. We rigorously prove that this prescription is free of spurious contributions. As a complementary probe, we study bivariate bicycle codes on a bipartite cylinder and show that the entanglement entropy depends sensitively on the cylinder circumference, revealing topological frustration of the underlying anyons.
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spellingShingle Resolving spurious topological entanglement entropy in stabilizer codes
Han, Peilun
Liang, Zijian
Wang, Yifei
Yang, Bowen
Gu, Yingfei
Chen, Yu-An
Quantum Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Algebra
Topological entanglement entropy (TEE) is a key diagnostic of long-range entanglement in two-dimensional gapped phases of matter, but it can suffer from spurious contributions that overestimate the total quantum dimension of the underlying topological order. In this work, we identify the microscopic origin of spurious TEE and introduce a concave partition for computing the Levin-Wen TEE of translation-invariant stabilizer codes of prime-dimensional qudits. We rigorously prove that this prescription is free of spurious contributions. As a complementary probe, we study bivariate bicycle codes on a bipartite cylinder and show that the entanglement entropy depends sensitively on the cylinder circumference, revealing topological frustration of the underlying anyons.
title Resolving spurious topological entanglement entropy in stabilizer codes
topic Quantum Physics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Quantum Algebra
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.27053