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Brick Wall Quantum Circuits with Global Fermionic Symmetry
by Pietro Richelli, Kareljan Schoutens, Alberto Zorzato
Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Alberto Zorzato |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202407_00034v2 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | Sept. 16, 2024 |
| Date submitted: | Sept. 9, 2024, 12:12 p.m. |
| Submitted by: | Alberto Zorzato |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approaches: | Theoretical, Computational |
Abstract
We study brick wall quantum circuits enjoying a global fermionic symmetry. The constituent 2-qubit gate, and its fermionic symmetry, derive from a 2-particle scattering matrix in integrable, supersymmetric quantum field theory in 1+1 dimensions. Our 2-qubit gate, as a function of three free parameters, is of so-called free fermionic or matchgate form, allowing us to derive the spectral structure of both the brick wall unitary $U_F$ and its, non-trivial, hamiltonian limit $H_{\gamma}$ in closed form. We find that the fermionic symmetry pins $H_{\gamma}$ to a surface of critical points, whereas breaking that symmetry leads to non-trivial topological phases. We briefly explore quench dynamics for this class of circuits.
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List of changes
- clarified how the commutation relation works for the boundary matrix K -made spin notation consistent in eq. 1.2 -corrected a typo in eq. 2.4 to clarify how parity affects local operators in graded tensor products -enlarged fontsize for numerical plots
Published as SciPost Phys. 17, 087 (2024)