Kómár, Anna and Landon-Cardinal, Olivier and Temme, Kristan (2016) Necessity of an energy barrier for self-correction of Abelian quantum doubles. Physical Review A, 93 (5). Art. No. 052337. ISSN 2469-9926. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.93.052337. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160601-103546621
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Abstract
We rigorously establish an Arrhenius law for the mixing time of quantum doubles based on any Abelian group Z_d. We have made the concept of the energy barrier therein mathematically well defined; it is related to the minimum energy cost the environment has to provide to the system in order to produce a generalized Pauli error, maximized for any generalized Pauli errors, not only logical operators. We evaluate this generalized energy barrier in Abelian quantum double models and find it to be a constant independent of system size. Thus, we rule out the possibility of entropic protection for this broad group of models.
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Additional Information: | © 2016 American Physical Society. Received 22 February 2016; published 31 May 2016. We thank B. Brown and J. Preskill for helpful discussions and for valuable comments on an early version of the draft. We acknowledge funding provided by the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, an NSF Physics Frontiers Center (NFS Grants No. PHY-1125565 and No. PHY-0803371) with support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (Grant No. GBMF-12500028). O.L.C. is partially supported by Fonds de Recherche Quebec-Nature et Technologies and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). | ||||||||||||||||
Group: | Institute for Quantum Information and Matter | ||||||||||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevA.93.052337 | ||||||||||||||||
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Official Citation: | Necessity of an energy barrier for self-correction of Abelian quantum doubles Anna Kómár, Olivier Landon-Cardinal, and Kristan Temme Phys. Rev. A 93, 052337 | ||||||||||||||||
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Deposited By: | Tony Diaz | ||||||||||||||||
Deposited On: | 01 Jun 2016 19:56 | ||||||||||||||||
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