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Topological color code and symmetry-protected topological phases

Beni Yoshida
(
- Caltech
)

Mar 24, 2015

14 pages

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Phys.Rev.B 91 (2015) 24, 245131

Published: Jun 15, 2015

e-Print:

1503.07208 [quant-ph]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevB.91.245131

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We study (d−1)-dimensional excitations in the d-dimensional color code that are created by transversal application of the Rd phase operators on connected subregions of qubits. We find that such excitations are the superpositions of electric charges and can be characterized by the fixed-point wave functions of (d−1)-dimensional bosonic symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phases with (Z2)⊗d symmetry. While these SPT excitations are localized on (d−1)-dimensional boundaries, their creation requires operations acting on all qubits inside the boundaries, reflecting the nontriviality of emerging SPT wave functions. Moreover, these SPT excitations can be physically realized as transparent gapped domain walls which exchange excitations in the color code. Namely, in the three-dimensional color code, the domain wall, associated with the transversal R3 operator, exchanges a magnetic flux and a composite of a magnetic flux and the looplike SPT excitation, revealing rich possibilities of boundaries in higher-dimensional TQFTs. We also find that magnetic fluxes and the looplike SPT excitations exhibit nontrivial three-loop braiding statistics in three dimensions as a result of the fact that the R3 phase operator belongs to the third level of the Clifford hierarchy. We believe that the connection between SPT excitations, fault-tolerant logical gates and gapped domain walls, established in this paper, can be generalized to a large class of topological quantum codes and TQFTs.

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16 pages, 11 figures (v2, title changed, "SPT phases" to "symmetry-protected topological phases", according to the journal policy)

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flux: magnetic
phase: topological
charge: electric
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