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most citedLevel/rank Duality and Chern-Simons-Matter Theories

321 citations · 2.9k across the 56 of their papers we have counts for

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59 papers

quant-ph2026

Sipser-Spielman meets Dijkgraaf-Witten: non-Abelian qLDPC codes via twisted sheaf gauge theory and almost-constant-overhead magic state fountain

Guanyu Zhu, Shi Jie Samuel Tan, Ryohei Kobayashi +1

Sipser-Spielman codes and Dijkgraaf-Witten twisted gauge theories are among the most profound ideas in the last few decades in the areas of computer science and mathematical physic…

quant-ph2026

Quantum Cellular Automata from Kramers-Wannier Dualities and Modular Relations

Carolyn Zhang, Po-Shen Hsin

Recent work has constructed higher-dimensional analogs of non-invertible symmetries similar to 1+1d Kramers-Wannier duality. Although their continuum descriptions often treat purel…

quant-ph2026

Bockstein braiding statistics

Po-Shen Hsin, Yu-An Chen

Braiding phenomena, from the charge-flux Aharonov-Bohm effect to anyonic statistics in fractional quantum Hall systems, are paradigmatic manifestations of topology in quantum physi…

cond-mat.str-el2026

Exploring Entropic Orders: High Temperature Continuous Symmetry Breaking, Chiral Topological States and Local Commuting Projector Models

Po-Shen Hsin, Ryohei Kobayashi

High temperature is usually expected to destroy order: as the Gibbs state approaches the infinite-temperature limit, it becomes an equal-weight ensemble over all states and the sys…

quant-ph2026

Non-Abelian qLDPC: TQFT Formalism, Addressable Gauging Measurement and Application to Magic State Fountain on 2D Product Codes

Guanyu Zhu, Ryohei Kobayashi, Po-Shen Hsin

A fundamental problem of fault-tolerant quantum computation with quantum low-density parity-check (qLDPC) codes is the tradeoff between connectivity and universality. It is widely…

quant-ph2026

Pauli stabilizer formalism for topological quantum field theories and generalized statistics

Yitao Feng, Hanyu Xue, Ryohei Kobayashi +2

Topological quantum field theory (TQFT) provides a unifying framework for describing topological phases of matter and for constructing quantum error-correcting codes, playing a cen…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Automorphism in Gauge Theories: Higher Symmetries and Transversal Non-Clifford Logical Gates

Po-Shen Hsin, Ryohei Kobayashi

Gauge theories are important descriptions for many physical phenomena and systems in quantum computation. Automorphism of gauge group naturally gives global symmetries of gauge the…

hep-th2025

Generalized Global Symmetries of Theories: Part II

Sergei Gukov, Po-Shen Hsin, Du Pei

We continue the investigation of symmetries and anomalies of theories obtained by compactifying 6d SCFTs on an internal manifold . We extend the notion of "polarizations…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Clifford Hierarchy Stabilizer Codes: Transversal Non-Clifford Gates and Magic

Ryohei Kobayashi, Guanyu Zhu, Po-Shen Hsin

A fundamental problem in fault-tolerant quantum computation is the tradeoff between universality and dimensionality, exemplified by the the Bravyi-König bound for -dimensional t…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 1 cited

Onsiteability of Higher-Form Symmetries

Yitao Feng, Yu-An Chen, Po-Shen Hsin +1

An internal symmetry in a lattice model is said to be onsiteable if it can be disentangled into an onsite action by introducing ancillas and conjugating with a finite-depth circuit…

quant-ph2025

Anyonic membranes and Pontryagin statistics

Yitao Feng, Hanyu Xue, Yuyang Li +4

Anyons, unique to two spatial dimensions, underlie extraordinary phenomena such as the fractional quantum Hall effect, but their generalization to higher dimensions has remained el…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Generalized Symmetries Phase Transitions with Local Quantum Fields

Po-Shen Hsin

Symmetries are important guiding principle for phase transitions. We systematically construct field theory models with local quantum fields that exhibit the following phase transit…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 1 cited

Generalized Hall Conductivities in Local Commuting Projector Models: Generalized Symmetries and Protected Surface Modes

Po-Shen Hsin, Ryohei Kobayashi

Hall conductivities are important characterizations of phases of matter. It is known that nonzero Hall conductivities are difficult to realize in local commuting projector lattice…

quant-ph2025

Higher-Form Anomalies Imply Intrinsic Long-Range Entanglement

Po-Shen Hsin, Ryohei Kobayashi, Abhinav Prem

We show that generic gapped quantum many-body states which respect an anomalous finite higher-form symmetry have an exponentially small overlap with any short-range entangled (SRE)…

cond-mat.str-el2025★ 4 cited

Anomalies of Coset Non-Invertible Symmetries

Po-Shen Hsin, Ryohei Kobayashi, Carolyn Zhang

Anomalies of global symmetries provide important information on the quantum dynamics. We show the dynamical constraints can be organized into three classes: genuine anomalies, frac…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 2 cited

Non-Invertible Symmetries as Condensation Defects in Finite-Group Gauge Theories

Clay Cordova, Davi B. Costa, Po-Shen Hsin

In recent work, we developed a method to construct invertible and non-invertible symmetries of finite-group gauge theories as topological domain walls on the lattice. In the presen…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Generalized Statistics on Lattices

Ryohei Kobayashi, Yuyang Li, Hanyu Xue +2

The statistics of particles and extended excitations, such as loops and membranes, are fundamental to modern condensed matter physics, high-energy physics, and quantum information…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Detecting Standard Model Gauge Group from Generalized Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

Po-Shen Hsin, Jaume Gomis

The Standard Model of particle physics stands as one of the most profound and successful frameworks for describing the fundamental workings of nature. The global form of the Standa…

quant-ph2024

Classifying Logical Gates in Quantum Codes via Cohomology Operations and Symmetry

Po-Shen Hsin, Ryohei Kobayashi, Guanyu Zhu

We systematically construct and classify fault-tolerant logical gates implemented by constant-depth circuits for quantum codes using cohomology operations and symmetry. These logic…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 4 cited

Non-invertible symmetries in finite-group gauge theory

Clay Cordova, Davi B. Costa, Po-Shen Hsin

We investigate the invertible and non-invertible symmetries of topological finite-group gauge theories in general spacetime dimensions, where the gauge group can be abelian or non-…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Time-Reversal Anomalies of QCD and QED

Po-Shen Hsin

Anomalies of global symmetry provide powerful tool to constrain the dynamics of quantum systems, such as anomaly matching in the renormalization group flow and obstruction to symme…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 19 cited

Fractionalization of Coset Non-Invertible Symmetry and Exotic Hall Conductance

Po-Shen Hsin, Ryohei Kobayashi, Carolyn Zhang

We investigate fractionalization of non-invertible symmetry in (2+1)D topological orders. We focus on coset non-invertible symmetries obtained by gauging non-normal subgroups of in…

quant-ph2024★ 2 cited

Non-Abelian Self-Correcting Quantum Memory and Transversal Non-Clifford Gate beyond the Distance Barrier

Po-Shen Hsin, Ryohei Kobayashi, Guanyu Zhu

We construct a family of infinitely many new candidate non-Abelian self-correcting topological quantum memories in spacetime dimensions without particle excitations usi…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 4 cited

Subsystem Symmetry Fractionalization and Foliated Field Theory

Po-Shen Hsin, David T. Stephen, Arpit Dua +1

Topological quantum matter exhibits a range of exotic phenomena when enriched by subdimensional symmetries. This includes new features beyond those that appear in the conventional…