5 papers
Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in a D Transverse-Field Ising Model under Decoherence
Yi-Ming Ding, Yuxuan Guo, Zhen Bi +1
Decoherence in many-body quantum systems can give rise to intrinsically mixed-state phases and phase transitions beyond the pure-state paradigm. Here we study the D transver…
Strong-to-weak spontaneous breaking of 1-form symmetry and intrinsically mixed topological order
Carolyn Zhang, Yichen Xu, Jian-Hao Zhang +3
Topological orders in 2+1d are spontaneous symmetry-breaking (SSB) phases of 1-form symmetries in pure states. The notion of symmetry is further enriched in the context of mixed st…
Classification of Average Crystalline Topological Superconductors through a Generalized Real-Space Construction
Sarvesh Srinivasan, Jian-Hao Zhang, Yang Qi +1
We investigate a novel class of topological superconducting phases protected by exact fermion-parity symmetry and average crystalline symmetries. These phases belong to the broader…
Locally Purified Density Operators for Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases in Mixed States
Yuchen Guo, Jian-Hao Zhang, Hao-Ran Zhang +2
We propose a tensor network approach known as the locally purified density operator (LPDO) to investigate the classification and characterization of symmetry-protected topological…
Holographic View of Mixed-State Symmetry-Protected Topological Phases in Open Quantum Systems
Shijun Sun, Jian-Hao Zhang, Zhen Bi +1
We establish a holographic duality between d-dimensional mixed-state symmetry-protected topological phases (mSPTs) and (d+1)-dimensional subsystem symmetry-protected topological st…