Thermalization in Kitaev’s quantum double models via tensor network techniques
We show that every ergodic Davies generator associated to any 2D Kitaev’s quantum double model has a nonvanishing spectral gap in the thermodynamic limit. This validates rigorously the extended belief that those models are useless as self-correcting quantum memories, even in the non-abelian case. Th...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Forum of Mathematics, Sigma |
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| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2050509423000981/type/journal_article |