135 research outputs found
Analyzing many-body localization with a quantum computer
Many-body localization, the persistence against electron-electron
interactions of the localization of states with non-zero excitation energy
density, poses a challenge to current methods of theoretical and numerical
analysis. Numerical simulations have so far been limited to a small number of
sites, making it difficult to obtain reliable statements about the
thermodynamic limit. In this paper, we explore the ways in which a relatively
small quantum computer could be leveraged to study many-body localization. We
show that, in addition to studying time-evolution, a quantum computer can, in
polynomial time, obtain eigenstates at arbitrary energies to sufficient
accuracy that localization can be observed. The limitations of quantum
measurement, which preclude the possibility of directly obtaining the
entanglement entropy, make it difficult to apply some of the definitions of
many-body localization used in the recent literature. We discuss alternative
tests of localization that can be implemented on a quantum computer.Comment: 11 pages, 8 figures; slightly revised, published versio
Universality of single quantum gates
We supply a rigorous proof that an open dense set of all possible 2-qubit
gates G has the property that if the quantum circuit model is restricted to
only permit swap of qubits lines and the application of G to pairs of lines,
then the model is still computationally universal.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figure; added references to previous proof
Pre-thermal phases of matter protected by time-translation symmetry
In a periodically driven (Floquet) system, there is the possibility for new
phases of matter, not present in stationary systems, protected by discrete
time-translation symmetry. This includes topological phases protected in part
by time-translation symmetry, as well as phases distinguished by the
spontaneous breaking of this symmetry, dubbed "Floquet time crystals". We show
that such phases of matter can exist in the pre-thermal regime of
periodically-driven systems, which exists generically for sufficiently large
drive frequency, thereby eliminating the need for integrability or strong
quenched disorder that limited previous constructions. We prove a theorem that
states that such a pre-thermal regime persists until times that are nearly
exponentially-long in the ratio of certain couplings to the drive frequency. By
similar techniques, we can also construct stationary systems which
spontaneously break *continuous* time-translation symmetry. We argue
furthermore that for driven systems coupled to a cold bath, the pre-thermal
regime could potentially persist to infinite time.Comment: Published version, with new title and introductio
Topological Crystalline Bose Insulator in Two Dimensions via Entanglement Spectrum
Strongly correlated analogues of topological insulators have been explored in
systems with purely on-site symmetries, such as time-reversal or charge
conservation. Here, we use recently developed tensor network tools to study a
quantum state of interacting bosons which is featureless in the bulk, but
distinguished from an atomic insulator in that it exhibits entanglement which
is protected by its spatial symmetries. These properties are encoded in a model
many-body wavefunction that describes a fully symmetric insulator of bosons on
the honeycomb lattice at half filling per site. While the resulting integer
unit cell filling allows the state to bypass `no-go' theorems that trigger
fractionalization at fractional filling, it nevertheless has nontrivial
entanglement, protected by symmetry. We demonstrate this by computing the
boundary entanglement spectra, finding a gapless entanglement edge described by
a conformal field theory as well as degeneracies protected by the non-trivial
action of combined charge-conservation and spatial symmetries on the edge.
Here, the tight-binding representation of the space group symmetries plays a
particular role in allowing certain entanglement cuts that are not allowed on
other lattices of the same symmetry, suggesting that the lattice representation
can serve as an additional symmetry ingredient in protecting an interacting
topological phase. Our results extend to a related insulating state of
electrons, with short-ranged entanglement and no band insulator analogue.Comment: 18 pages, 13 figures Added additional reference
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