Topological protection of local quantum Fisher information

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Auteurs principaux: Płodzień, Marcin, Chwedeńczuk, Jan
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author Płodzień, Marcin
Chwedeńczuk, Jan
author_facet Płodzień, Marcin
Chwedeńczuk, Jan
contents In many-body quantum systems, unitary dynamics generically delocalize locally encoded information, causing single-site metrological sensitivity to vanish. We analytically demonstrate that a topological phase can prevent this dispersal. In the open Kitaev chain, a Majorana zero mode fixes the boundary quantum Fisher information (QFI) at a nonzero plateau that persists for times exponentially long in system size. We derive exact analytical expressions for the local QFI and identify the mechanism as the spatial separation of the two Majorana quadratures to opposite ends of the chain. This separation produces a boundary encoding-axis asymmetry that distinguishes topological boundary memory from a generic localized subgap signal. We show numerically that the asymmetry is robust to moderate quenched on-site disorder, while the boundary plateau remains visible under parity-preserving interactions in finite-size real-time simulations. The protocol requires only product-state initialization, Hamiltonian evolution, and single-site readout.
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spellingShingle Topological protection of local quantum Fisher information
Płodzień, Marcin
Chwedeńczuk, Jan
Quantum Physics
Quantum Gases
In many-body quantum systems, unitary dynamics generically delocalize locally encoded information, causing single-site metrological sensitivity to vanish. We analytically demonstrate that a topological phase can prevent this dispersal. In the open Kitaev chain, a Majorana zero mode fixes the boundary quantum Fisher information (QFI) at a nonzero plateau that persists for times exponentially long in system size. We derive exact analytical expressions for the local QFI and identify the mechanism as the spatial separation of the two Majorana quadratures to opposite ends of the chain. This separation produces a boundary encoding-axis asymmetry that distinguishes topological boundary memory from a generic localized subgap signal. We show numerically that the asymmetry is robust to moderate quenched on-site disorder, while the boundary plateau remains visible under parity-preserving interactions in finite-size real-time simulations. The protocol requires only product-state initialization, Hamiltonian evolution, and single-site readout.
title Topological protection of local quantum Fisher information
topic Quantum Physics
Quantum Gases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00770