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Higher-group symmetry of topological order and stabilizer codes

Date : Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Place : Seminar Room 5 (A615), 6th Floor, ISSP Lecturer : Ryohei KOBAYASHI Affiliation : University of Maryland Committee Chair : Masaki OSHIKAWA (ex. 63275)
e-mail: oshikawa@issp.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Language in Speech : English

Topologically ordered phases can host interesting classes of non-trivial topological defects of varying codimensions. Among the topological defects, the invertible defects form an algebraic structure called higher-group. In this talk we explain how the higher-group structure of invertible global symmetry emerges in discrete gauge theory of generic dimensions, and show various examples of the higher-group symmetry in topological order mainly focusing on (3+1)-dimensional stabilizer codes. The emergent global symmetry of a stabilizer model is understood as a logical gate acting on the logical qubits. We explain that the higher-group structure of global symmetry in general leads to non-Pauli logical gate realized by the action of emergent global symmetry, e.g., Control-Z logical gate of (3+1)-dimensional Z2 toric code.

Participation in our seminar online is also welcomed. Please find the attached Zoom link below.


(Published on: Monday April 17th, 2023)