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quant-ph2026

Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Chong Wang

Strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (SW-SSB) has recently emerged as a useful framework for studying phases of matter in open systems, quantum or classical. Beginning with…

quant-ph2026

Local Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

Francisco Divi, Leonardo A. Lessa, Chong Wang

We propose a local notion of strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking (SW-SSB), through a local one-point fidelity correlator. Compared with the previous definition in terms of…

cond-mat.dis-nn2026

Order-disorder trade-off in dirty quantum systems

Jinmin Yi, Chong Wang

We prove a trade-off theorem for order and disorder parameters in one-dimensional quantum spin systems with quenched disorder. For a disordered ensemble with exact Ising symmetry a…

quant-ph2025

Mixed-state phases from local reversibility

Shengqi Sang, Leonardo A. Lessa, Roger S. K. Mong +3

We propose a refined definition of mixed-state phase equivalence based on locally reversible channel circuits. We show that such circuits preserve topological degeneracy and the lo…

quant-ph2025

Higher-form anomaly and long-range entanglement of mixed states

Leonardo A. Lessa, Shengqi Sang, Tsung-Cheng Lu +2

In open quantum systems, we directly relate anomalies of higher-form symmetries to the long-range entanglement of any mixed state with such symmetries. First, we define equivalence…

quant-ph2024★ 17 cited

Symmetry enforced entanglement in maximally mixed states

Amin Moharramipour, Leonardo A. Lessa, Chong Wang +2

Entanglement in quantum many-body systems is typically fragile to interactions with the environment. Generic unital quantum channels, for example, have the maximally mixed state wi…

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★ 28 cited

Mixed-state quantum anomaly and multipartite entanglement

Leonardo A. Lessa, Meng Cheng, Chong Wang

Quantum entanglement measures of many-body states have been increasingly useful to characterize phases of matter. Here we explore a surprising connection between mixed state entang…