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Disentangling the Toric Code

  • Lei Gioia
  • Salvatore D. Pace
  • Ruben Verresen
  • Shu-Heng Shao
  • Ryan Thorngren
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Abstract

Commuting-projector Hamiltonians with integer spectrum such as the 1+1d Ising ferromagnet and the 2+1d toric code may be regarded as the generators of non-on-site U(1) symmetries. In this paper we study whether these symmetries can be made on-site in the presence of finite and infinite-dimensional ancillae. In the finite-dimensional case, we prove that the fractionalized excitations, such as domain walls and anyons, make it impossible to on-site these Hamiltonians. On the other hand, we show that when infinite dimensional ancillae (e.g., rotors) are allowed, both the 1+1d Ising ferromagnet and the 2+1d toric code can be disentangled, yielding on-site symmetries. This is not in contradiction with the non-trivial ground state order of these Hamiltonians, since the ancilla Hamiltonians are no longer bounded from below. Our results indicate agreement between lattice and quantum field theory anomalies in the presence of infinite-dimensional ancillae, while with finite-dimensional ancillae the obstruction to on-siteability may even be non-invertible.

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@misc{gioia2026disentangling,
  title = {{Disentangling the Toric Code}},
  author = {Lei Gioia and Salvatore D. Pace and Ruben Verresen and Shu-Heng Shao and Ryan Thorngren},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.30363},
  eprint = {2609.30363},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30363},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY  - UNPB
TI  - Disentangling the Toric Code
AU  - Lei Gioia
AU  - Salvatore D. Pace
AU  - Ruben Verresen
AU  - Shu-Heng Shao
AU  - Ryan Thorngren
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/24
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.30363
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.30363
AB  - Commuting-projector Hamiltonians with integer spectrum such as the 1+1d Ising ferromagnet and the 2+1d toric code may be regarded as the generators of non-on-site U(1) symmetries. In this paper we study whether these symmetries can be made on-site in the presence of finite and infinite-dimensional ancillae. In the finite-dimensional case, we prove that the fractionalized excitations, such as domain walls and anyons, make it impossible to on-site these Hamiltonians. On the other hand, we show that when infinite dimensional ancillae (e.g., rotors) are allowed, both the 1+1d Ising ferromagnet and the 2+1d toric code can be disentangled, yielding on-site symmetries. This is not in contradiction with the non-trivial ground state order of these Hamiltonians, since the ancilla Hamiltonians are no longer bounded from below. Our results indicate agreement between lattice and quantum field theory anomalies in the presence of infinite-dimensional ancillae, while with finite-dimensional ancillae the obstruction to on-siteability may even be non-invertible.
ER  -