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Fault-tolerant simulation of Lattice Gauge Theories with gauge covariant codes

University of Trento · Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Trento Institute for Fundamental Physics And Applications · +3 more institutions

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Abstract

We show in this paper that a strong and easy connection exists between quantum error correction and Lattice Gauge Theories (LGT) by using the Gauge symmetry to construct an efficient error-correcting code for Abelian Z 2 LGTs. We identify the logical operations on this gauge covariant code and show that the corresponding Hamiltonian can be expressed in terms of these logical operations while preserving the locality of the interactions. Furthermore, we demonstrate that these substitutions actually give a new way of writing the LGT as an equivalent hardcore boson model. Finally we demonstrate a method to perform fault-tolerant time evolution of the Hamiltonian within the gauge covariant code using both…

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