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This research establishes a profound spacetime duality between dynamical signatures in open quantum systems and higher-dimensional symmetry-protected topological phases, offering new tools to diagnose long-range temporal order. By mapping the Liouvillian of repeated quantum channels to mSPT boundary states, the study provides a rigorous framework for understanding how quantum anomalies constrain system evolution over time. This theoretical advance deepens our comprehension of fundamental constraints in many-body physics without relying on speculative hardware applications.
Lieb-Schultz-Mattis Constraints for Quantum Channels: A Spacetime-Duality View
arXiv:2608.26266v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum anomalies strongly constrain the possible behavior of many-body systems. A prime example is the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) theorem, which relates UV symmetry and filling constraints to IR features of the energy spectrum and ground-state structure. Here, we ask how LSM constraints shape dynamical signatures and temporal correlations in open quantum systems. Using a spacetime duality, we show that the Liouvillian of a $d$-dimensional repeated quantum channel with a mixed anomaly between strong $S$ and weak $G$ symmetry can be mapped to a $(d{+}1)$-dimensional mixed-state symmetry-protected topological (mSPT) phase. Under this correspondence, the initial and steady states of the channel are identified with boundary states of the higher-dimensional mSPT in the presence of bulk projection. We further introduce the twisted Renyi-$N$ correlator (TRNC) as a probe of temporal correlations in the channel and demonstrate that it is dual to the mSPT strange correlator, providing a direct bulk-boundary route to diagnose long-range temporal order implied by the LSM anomaly. Finally, we identify the \textit{Liouvillian singular spectrum}, rather than the Liouvillian spectrum itself, as a more fundamental diagnostic of quantum anomalies, and show that it is dual to the operator entanglement spectrum of the mSPT.
Abstract:Quantum anomalies strongly constrain the possible behavior of many-body systems. A prime example is the Lieb-Schultz-Mattis (LSM) theorem, which relates UV symmetry and filling constraints to IR features of the energy spectrum and ground-state structure. Here, we ask how LSM constraints shape dynamical signatures and temporal correlations in open quantum systems. Using a spacetime duality, we show that the Liouvillian of a $d$-dimensional repeated quantum channel with a mixed anomaly between strong $S$ and weak $G$ symmetry can be mapped to a $(d{+}1)$-dimensional mixed-state symmetry-protected topological (mSPT) phase. Under this correspondence, the initial and steady states of the channel are identified with boundary states of the higher-dimensional mSPT in the presence of bulk projection. We further introduce the twisted Renyi-$N$ correlator (TRNC) as a probe of temporal correlations in the channel and demonstrate that it is dual to the mSPT strange correlator, providing a direct bulk-boundary route to diagnose long-range temporal order implied by the LSM anomaly. Finally, we identify the \textit{Liouvillian singular spectrum}, rather than the Liouvillian spectrum itself, as a more fundamental diagnostic of quantum anomalies, and show that it is dual to the operator entanglement spectrum of the mSPT.
Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
arXiv:2608.26266 [quant-ph]
(or arXiv:2608.26266v1 [quant-ph] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.26266 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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