Hybrid dynamics of diffusing Majorana defects: amplitudes, parity regimes, and braiding-induced connectivity
ORAL
Abstract
Replacing classical domain walls in Ising chains with Majorana defects can raise nonlocal topological cooling Hilbert space that stores parity information. We simulate diffusion–annihilation dynamics starting from high-defect, dimerized initial states and show that, although the late-time decay remains in the A+A→∅ universality class with ρ(t)∝1/√(8πDt), the governing amplitude is topology-dependent. If any bonds start in odd parity, the asymptotic amplitude is exactly 2; for all-even initial parity, the amplitude becomes 2y(2−y), where y is the intrapair-length fraction, revealing a mean-field constraint from parity variance analogous to magnetization in the Ising voter model. Mapping to two coupled classical chains clarifies the role of expected bond parity \bar n and identifies the parity operator's variance as the quantum Fisher information that controls decay amplitudes and correlators. Extending to N stacked chains with probabilistic interlayer braiding—unitary exchanges that reshuffle pairing—we find braiding restores the symmetry broken in the all-even sector while lowers the total-defect density to ρ(t)=(N+1)/√(8πDt), independent of local braiding range, set by the number of independent exchange classes. Our results expose a hybrid quantum–classical in which topologically protected information back-reacts on classical defect motion and sets universal amplitudes.
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Presenters
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Tom Tang
- Pomona College