3 papers
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-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…