Solutions of modular bootstrap constraints from quantum codes

TL;DR

This paper establishes a novel correspondence between quantum error correcting codes and a subset of 2D conformal field theories, simplifying modular invariance constraints and enabling explicit construction of isospectral and nonholomorphic partition functions.

Contribution

It introduces a new method linking quantum codes to code CFTs, reducing modular invariance to algebraic relations and generating explicit examples of novel CFT-like functions.

Findings

Constructed explicit examples of isospectral theories.

Generated nonholomorphic functions satisfying CFT properties.

Demonstrated algebraic relations simplify modular invariance constraints.

Abstract

Modular invariance imposes rigid constrains on the partition functions of two-dimensional conformal field theories. Many fundamental results follow strictly from modular invariance, giving rise to the numerical modular bootstrap program. Here we report a way to assign to a particular family of quantum error correcting codes a family of "code CFTs" CFTs", which forms a subset of the space of Narain CFTs. This correspondence reduces modular invariance of the 2d CFT partition function to a few simple algebraic relations obeyed by a multivariate polynomial characterizing the corresponding code. Using this relation we construct many explicit examples of physically distinct isospectral theories, as well as many examples of nonholomorphic functions, which satisfy all basic properties of the 2d CFT partition function, yet are not associated with any known CFT.