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most citedStrong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Mixed Quantum States

71 citations · 97 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

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…

cond-mat.str-el2025

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…

quant-ph2024★ 10 cited

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…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

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…

quant-ph2024★ 71 cited

Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Mixed Quantum States

Leonardo A. Lessa, Ruochen Ma, Jian-Hao Zhang +3

Symmetry in mixed quantum states can manifest in two distinct forms: strong symmetry, where each individual pure state in the quantum ensemble is symmetric with the same charge, an…

cond-mat.str-el2024★ 15 cited

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…