New publication entitled „Fracton and topological order in the XY checkerboard toric code“
We are happy that our new publication entitled „Fracton and topological order in the XY checkerboard toric code“ just appeared as a letter in Physical Research Research. A very nice piece of work by LEP members Maximilian Vieweg and Kai Phillip Schmidt.
Why is it interesting?
👉 Everyone in Quantum knows the toric code as a paradigmatic model for topological quantum order, quantum memory, and in particular for quantum error correction. In our work we introduce the XY checkerboard toric code (XYTC) as a generalization of the conventional toric code with two types of star operators and two anisotropic star sublattices forming a checkerboard lattice.
👉 The quantum phase diagram is deduced exactly, displaying topological and fracton phases with exotic properties.
👉 The properties of the fracton phase such as subextensive ground-state degeneracy can be analytically deduced from the degenerate limit of isolated stars.
👉 Fracton physics and codes are less known but will likely play a more important role in Quantum in the future.