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Narain CFTs from qudit stabilizer codes
by Kohki Kawabata, Tatsuma Nishioka, Takuya Okuda
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Kohki Kawabata · Tatsuma Nishioka · Takuya Okuda |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07089v1 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2023-03-20 |
| Date submitted: | 2023-01-12 08:01 |
| Submitted by: | Kawabata, Kohki |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics Core |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
We construct a discrete subset of Narain CFTs from quantum stabilizer codes with qudit (including qubit) systems whose dimension is a prime number. Our construction exploits three important relations. The first relation is between qudit stabilizer codes and classical codes. The second is between classical codes and Lorentzian lattices. The third is between Lorentzian lattices and Narain CFTs. In particular, we study qudit Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes as a special class of qudit stabilizer codes and the ensembles of the Narain code CFTs constructed from CSS codes. We obtain exact results for the averaged partition functions over the ensembles and discuss their implications for holographic duality.
Published as SciPost Phys. Core 6, 035 (2023)
Reports on this Submission
Report #1 by Anonymous (Referee 1) on 2023-1-23 (Invited Report)
- Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:2212.07089v1, delivered 2023-01-22, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.6586
Strengths
The paper builds on the recently-introduced relation between certain quantum error-correcting codes and 2d Narain CFTs by expanding the family of quantum codes with the CFT counterparts. It is a timely development and include the explicit results.
Weaknesses
A possible weakness is the limited scope - it would be interesting to ask the question in full generality: to outline all quantum codes with the CFT counterparts (of course this question can be asked only within a given framework, which by itself might be generalized in the future).
Report
The paper develops the connection between quantum codes and 2d CFTs, following the original construction of Refs. [1-3] for classical codes, and its extension to quantum codes in [4]. The latter was extended in Ref. [11] and then in Ref. [28], but the codes considered in these papers were classical. This prompts a natural question if quantum codes have any role in this case. The authors answer this question, at least partially, by constructing an explicit connection between a class of quantum error-correcting codes and certain classical codes discussed in [11]. The paper contains many explicit results, including corresponding CFT torus partition functions, as well as the ensemble-averaged partition function.
There are several natural questions which follow from this work. One if quantum codes considered by the authors have any physical interpretation in terms of CFT Hilbert space, in the spirit of Ref. [62]. Another question is to consider more general family of quantum codes giving rise to different types of CFT-related classical codes introduced in Ref. [28].