2021
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.12162
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Quantum Codes, CFTs, and Defects

Abstract: We give a general construction relating Narain rational conformal field theories (RCFTs) and associated 3d Chern-Simons (CS) theories to quantum stabilizer codes. Starting from an abelian CS theory with a fusion group consisting of n even-order factors, we map a boundary RCFT to an n-qubit quantum code. When the relevant 't Hooft anomalies vanish, we can orbifold our RCFTs and describe this gauging at the level of the code. Along the way, we give CFT interpretations of the code subspace and the Hilbert space o… Show more

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“…The physical interpretation of the construction of Narain CFTs with quantum codes is also to be given. Recently this has been studied by [21,22]. Finally, it is a future subject to extend the correspondence between Narain CFTs and quantum stabilizer codes.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…The physical interpretation of the construction of Narain CFTs with quantum codes is also to be given. Recently this has been studied by [21,22]. Finally, it is a future subject to extend the correspondence between Narain CFTs and quantum stabilizer codes.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…Speaking of the latter, one can straightforwardly generalize our construction by starting with a glue lattice Λ ⊂ R 3,3 or in fact Λ ⊂ R r,r for any r ≥ 2. Another important direction would be to connect the bottom-up approach of this paper with the top-down approach of [13] where quantum codes were given an interpretation in terms of CFT Hilbert space extended by defect operators. Finally, given our conjecture that optimal theories are code theories, it would be interesting to develop our approach into a practical way of constructing optimal theories with c > 8, thus complementing conventional modular bootstrap.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This emphasizes the bottom-up nature of our approach. While codes are expected to reflect some algebraic properties of the underlying CFTs in the top-down constructions [13], in our construction certain non-rational CFTs without obvious algebraic properties which would make them "finite" also can be obtained from codes.…”
Section: =mentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…In addition, we can construct an error-correcting code from A, which can reproduce the partition function with use of the weight enumerator polynomial. This might be the inverse of Construction A, and partially the extension of the work of Buican et al [BDR21]. Before describing this, we will continue to illustrate how to regard a Narain CFT as a simple current orbifold model for non-homogeneous cases.…”
Section: Always In the Image Of ϕ If And Only If ( ⃗ L −⃗ A) Is One O...mentioning
confidence: 99%