Bounded light cone and robust topological order out of equilibrium
arXiv:2208.13839 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.111.022414
Abstract
The ground state degeneracy of topologically ordered gapped Hamiltonians is the bedrock for self-correcting quantum memories, which are unfortunately not stable away from equilibrium even at zero temperature. This plague precludes practical robust self-correction since stability at zero temperature is a prerequisite for finite-temperature robustness. In this work, we show that the emergence of a bounded light cone renders the unitary time evolution a quasi-adiabatic continuation that preserves topological order, with the initial ground space retaining its macroscopic distance at all times as a quantum code. We also show how bounded light cones can emerge through suitable perturbations in Kitaev's toric code and honeycomb model. Our results suggest that topological orders and self-correcting quantum memories can be dynamically robust at zero temperature.
7+5 pages, 4+3 figures. the Supplemental Material is updated. In version 4, we show the emergence of a bounded light cone in the disordered Kitaev's honeycomb model
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