Long-range entanglement is necessary for a topological storage of quantum information
Apr 14, 20135 pages
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- Phys.Rev.Lett. 111 (2013) 080503
- Published: Aug 23, 2013
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- 1304.3925 [quant-ph]
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Abstract: (APS)
A general inequality between entanglement entropy and a number of topologically ordered states is derived, even without using the properties of the parent Hamiltonian or the formalism of topological quantum field theory. Given a quantum state |ψ⟩, we obtain an upper bound on the number of distinct states that are locally indistinguishable from |ψ⟩. The upper bound is determined only by the entanglement entropy of some local subsystems. As an example, we show that logN≤2γ for a large class of topologically ordered systems on a torus, where N is the number of topologically protected states and γ is the constant subcorrection term of the entanglement entropy. We discuss applications to quantum many-body systems that do not have any low-energy topological quantum field theory description, as well as tradeoff bounds for general quantum error correcting codes.Note:
- 5 pages, 1 figure, minor changes. For more details, see the first version. After submitting this work to the journal, I have found a related work by T. Osborne; see arXiv:0806.2962
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