Noise-tolerant Detection of $Z_N$ Topological Orders in Quantum Many-body States

Abstract

Topologically ordered states are fundamentally important in theoretical physics, which are also suggested as promising candidates to build fault-tolerant quantum devices. However, it is still elusive how topological orders can be affected or detected under noises. In this work, we find a quantity, termed as the ring degeneracy $\mathcal{D}$, which is robust under pure noise to detect both trivial and intrinsic topological orders. The ring degeneracy is defined as the degeneracy of the solutions of the self-consistent equations that encode the contraction of the corresponding tensor network(TN). For the $Z_N$ orders, we find that the ring degeneracy satisfies a simple relation $\mathcal{D}=(N+1)/2+d$, with $d=0$ for odd $N$ and $d=1/2$ for even $N$. Simulations on several non-trivial states (two-dimensional Ising model, $Z_N$ topological states, and resonating valence bond states) show that the ring degeneracy can tolerate noises up to a strength associated to the gap of the TN boundary theory.

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