Description
Modular-qudit stabilizer code with qudit dimension \(q=4\) that is characterized by the 2D double semion topological phase. The code can be obtained from the \(\mathbb{Z}_4\) surface code by condensing the anyon \(e^2 m^2\) [3]. Originally formulated as the ground-state space of a Hamiltonian with non-commuting terms [1], which can be extended to other spatial dimensions [4], and later as a commuting-projector code [5,6].
This stabilizer code family is inequivalent to a CSS code via a Clifford circuit whose depth does not scale with \(n\) [7; Thm. 1.1]. This is because the double semion phase has a sign problem [7,8], and existence of such a Clifford circuit would allow one to construct a code Hamiltonian that is free of such a problem.
Parent
- Abelian TQD stabilizer code — When treated as ground states of the code Hamiltonian, the code states realize double-semion topological order, a topological phase of matter that exists as the deconfined phase of the twisted \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) gauge theory in two dimensions [9].
Cousins
- Kitaev surface code — The double semion phase also has a realization in terms of qubits [1] that can be compared to the qubit surface code. There is a logical basis for both the toric and double-semion codes where each codeword is a superposition of states corresponding to all noncontractible loops of a particular homotopy type. The superposition is equal for the toric code, whereas an odd number of loops appear with a \(-1\) coefficient for the double semion.
- Modular-qudit surface code — The exchange statistics of the anyon for the double-semion code coincides with a subset of anyons in the \(\mathbb{Z}_4\), but the fusion rules are different. The double-semion code can be obtained from the \(\mathbb{Z}_4\) surface code by condensing the anyon \(e^2 m^2\) [3] or by gauging the one-form symmetry associated with said anyon [3; Footnote 20].
- Abelian TQD stabilizer code — All Abelian TQD codes can be realized as modular-qudit stabilizer codes by starting with an Abelian quantum double model along with a family of Abelian TQDs that generalize the double semion anyon theory and condensing certain bosonic anyons [3].
- \(\mathbb{Z}_q^{(1)}\) subsystem code — The anyonic exchange statistics of \(\mathbb{Z}_4^{(1)}\) subsystem code resemble those of the double semion code, but its fusion rules realize the \(\mathbb{Z}_4\) group.
- Chiral semion subsystem code — The semion code can be obtained from the double-semion stabilizer code by gauging out the anyon \(\bar{s}\) [3; Fig. 15].
References
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- Nathanan Tantivasadakarn (2024-03-26) — most recent
- Victor V. Albert (2023-11-28)
- Victor V. Albert (2021-12-29)
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“Double-semion stabilizer code”, The Error Correction Zoo (V. V. Albert & P. Faist, eds.), 2024. https://errorcorrectionzoo.org/c/double_semion