activity
20242026
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15 papers

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Brownian ratchets and pumps universally simulate many-body active dynamics

Charles Stahl, Ethan Lake, Vedika Khemani

Active systems can exhibit a broad range of phenomena forbidden in equilibrium. Their dynamics are often specified by abstract local update rules, and it is generally unclear when…

quant-ph2026

Diffusion Codes: Self-Correction from Small(er)-Set Expansion with Tunable Non-locality

Adithya Sriram, Vedika Khemani, Benedikt Placke

Optimal constructions of classical LDPC codes can be obtained by choosing the Tanner graph uniformly at random among biregular graphs. We introduce a class of codes that we call ``…

quant-ph2026

Non-Abelian Quantum Low-Density Parity Check Codes and Non-Clifford Operations from Gauging Logical Gates via Measurements

Maine Christos, Chiu Fan Bowen Lo, Vedika Khemani +1

In this work, we introduce constructions for non-Abelian qLDPC codes obtained by gauging transversal Clifford gates using measurement and feedback. In particular, we identify two q…

quant-ph2026

Rare Events and Griffiths Phases in Topological Quantum Error Correction

Adithya Sriram, Nicholas O'Dea, Yaodong Li +2

The performance of quantum error correcting (QEC) codes are often studied under the assumption of spatio-temporally uniform error rates. On the other hand, experimental implementat…

quant-ph2026

LDPC stabilizer codes as gapped quantum phases: stability under graph-local perturbations

Wojciech De Roeck, Vedika Khemani, Yaodong Li +2

We generalize the proof of stability of topological order, due to Bravyi, Hastings and Michalakis, to stabilizer Hamiltonians corresponding to low-density parity check (LDPC) codes…

cond-mat.stat-mech2026

Slow mixing and emergent one-form symmetries in three-dimensional gauge theory

Charles Stahl, Benedikt Placke, Vedika Khemani +1

Symmetry-breaking order at low temperatures is often accompanied by slow relaxation dynamics, due to diverging free-energy barriers arising from interfaces between different ordere…