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arXiv:2405.18145

Quantum subsystem codes, CFTs and their $\mathbb{Z}_2$-gaugings

Ando, Keiichi, Kohki Kawabata, Tatsuma Nishioka

Published May 28, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

We construct Narain conformal field theories (CFTs) from quantum subsystem codes, a more comprehensive class of quantum error-correcting codes than quantum stabilizer codes, for qudit systems of prime dimensions. The resulting code CFTs exhibit a global $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry, enabling us to perform the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-gauging to derive their orbifolded and fermionized theories when the symmetry is non-anomalous. We classify a subset of these subsystem code CFTs using weighted oriented graphs and enumerate those with small central charges. Consequently, we identify several bosonic code CFTs self-dual under the $\mathbb{Z}_2$-orbifold, new supersymmetric code CFTs, and a few fermionic code CFTs with spontaneously broken supersymmetry.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2405.18145

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