Published August 15, 2019 | Version Published + Submitted
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Foliated fracton order in the Majorana checkerboard model

  • 1. ROR icon California Institute of Technology
  • 2. ROR icon University of California, San Diego

Abstract

We establish the presence of foliated fracton order in the Majorana checkerboard model. In particular, we describe an entanglement renormalization group transformation which utilizes toric code layers as resources of entanglement and furthermore discuss entanglement signatures and fractional excitations of the model. In fact, we give an exact local unitary equivalence between the Majorana checkerboard model and the semionic X-cube model augmented with decoupled fermionic modes. This mapping demonstrates that the model lies within the X-cube foliated fracton phase.

Additional Information

© 2019 American Physical Society. Received 8 May 2019; revised manuscript received 4 August 2019; published 16 August 2019. We are grateful to Kevin Slagle for helpful discussions. T.W. is supported by Caltech's Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. W.S. and X.C. are supported by the National Science Foundation under Award No. DMR-1654340 and the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter at Caltech. X.C. is also supported by the Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship and the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at Caltech.

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96650
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Funding

Caltech Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM)
NSF
DMR-1654340
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, Caltech

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2019-06-24
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