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arxiv: 2404.06514 · v2 · pith:LV5UIKEUnew · submitted 2024-04-09 · 🪐 quant-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech· cond-mat.str-el

Disentangling transitions in topological order induced by boundary decoherence

classification 🪐 quant-ph cond-mat.stat-mechcond-mat.str-el
keywords boundaryentanglementtopologicalbipartitiondecoherencenegativitydisentanglinginsight
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We study the entanglement structure of topological orders subject to decoherence on the bipartition boundary. Focusing on the toric codes in $d$ space dimensions for $d=2,3,4$, we explore whether the boundary decoherence may be able to induce a disentangling transition, characterized by the destruction of mixed-state long-range entanglement across the bipartition, measured by topological entanglement negativity. A key insight of our approach is the connection between the negativity spectrum of the decohered mixed states and emergent symmetry-protected topological orders under certain symmetry-preserving perturbation localized on the bipartition boundary. This insight allows us to analytically derive the exact results of entanglement negativity without using a replica trick.

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