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Emergence of Classical Magnetic Order from Anderson Towers: Quantum Darwinism in Action

Sotnikov, O. M.
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Stepanov, E. A.
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Katsnelson, M. I.
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November 8, 2023
Physical Review X (PRX)

Environment is assumed to play a negative role in quantum mechanics, destroying the coherence in a quantum system and, thus, randomly changing its state. However, for a quantum system that is initially in a degenerate ground state, the situation could be different. In this case, the infinite manifold of ground state eigenfunctions can contain a few states of zero entanglement, which can be demonstrated based on the minimization of the von Neumann entropy. Then, following quantum Darwinism, these "classical" combinations are selected and promoted by the quantum environment, which means that different independent observers find them in experiments. In this work, we find and explore such classical states in the eigenspectra of skyrmionic and antiferromagnetic quantum systems starting from a numerical realization of Anderson's tower of states. The degeneracy of the quantum ground state is shown to be the key for explaining nontrivial properties of magnetic matter in the classical world including topological protection arising in the classical limit.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevX.13.041027
Web of Science ID

WOS:001107151100001

Author(s)
Sotnikov, O. M.
Stepanov, E. A.
Katsnelson, M. I.
Mila, F.  
Mazurenko, V. V.
Date Issued

2023-11-08

Publisher

American Physical Society

Published in
Physical Review X (PRX)
Volume

13

Issue

4

Article Number

041027

Subjects

Physical Sciences

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Relative State Formulation

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Symmetry-Breaking

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Antiferromagnets

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Decoherence

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Simulation

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Lattice

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February 20, 2024
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