Subsystem symmetry, spin glass order, and criticality from random measurements in a two-dimensional Bacon-Shor circuit
arXiv:2303.02187 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.108.024205
Abstract
We study a 2D measurement-only random circuit motivated by the Bacon-Shor error correcting code. We find a rich phase diagram as one varies the relative probabilities of measuring nearest neighbor Pauli XX and ZZ check operators. In the Bacon-Shor code, these checks commute with a group of stabilizer and logical operators, which therefore represent conserved quantities. Described as a subsystem symmetry, these conservation laws lead to a continuous phase transition between an X-basis and Z-basis spin glass order. The two phases are separated by a critical point where the entanglement entropy between two halves of an L X L system scales as L ln L, a logarithmic violation of the area law. We generalize to a model where the check operators break the subsystem symmetries (and the Bacon-Shor code structure). In tension with established heuristics, we find that the phase transition is replaced by a smooth crossover, and the X- and Z-basis spin glass orders spatially coexist. Additionally, if we approach the line of subsystem symmetries away from the critical point in the phase diagram, some spin glass order parameters jump discontinuously
11 pages, 7 figures ; Minor revisions in response to referee comments and corrected typos
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