Non-onsite symmetries and quantum teleportation in split-index matrix product states

TL;DR

This paper introduces split-index matrix product states (SIMPS), a new tensor network formalism, to analyze spin chains with non-onsite symmetries, revealing novel topological phases and enabling long-distance quantum teleportation.

Contribution

The paper develops SIMPS, a new tensor network approach, to characterize non-onsite symmetry-protected topological phases and demonstrate their use in quantum teleportation.

Findings

Identification of symmetry-protected topological phases with non-onsite symmetries.

Demonstration of deterministic long-distance quantum teleportation using these states.

Introduction of SIMPS as a versatile tool for describing complex quantum states.

Abstract

We describe a class of spin chains with new physical and computational properties. On the physical side, the spin chains give examples of symmetry-protected topological phases that are defined by non-onsite symmetries, i.e. symmetries that are not a tensor product of single-site operators. These phases can be detected by string-order parameters, but notably do not exhibit entanglement spectrum degeneracy. On the computational side, the spin chains represent a new class of states that can be used to deterministically teleport information across long distances, with the novel property that the necessary classical side processing is a non-linear function of the measurement outcomes. We also give examples of states that can serve as universal resources for measurement-based quantum computation, providing the first examples of such resources without entanglement spectrum degeneracy. The key tool in our analysis is a new kind of tensor network representation which we call split-index matrix product states (SIMPS). We develop the basic formalism of SIMPS, compare them to matrix product states, show how they are better equipped to describe certain kinds of non-onsite symmetries including anomalous symmetries, and discuss how they are also well-suited to describing quantum teleportation and constrained spin chains.