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Three-dimensional QCA that are not stably circuits
Abstract
We prove that the three-dimensional chiral Zp Clifford quantum cellular automata of Haah and of Sun--Yang--Wang--Tantivasadakarn--Chen are, for every odd prime p, not finite-depth quantum circuits, even after tensoring with arbitrary ancillary degrees of freedom and composing with translations. Previously such statements were known only inside the Clifford category. As a consequence, the group of three-dimensional QCA modulo stabilized circuits and translations is not finitely generated. The key ingredient is a new invariant of invertible subalgebras, which we conjecture to be the square of the total quantum dimension of the hosted anyon theory, modulo rational squares.
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BibTeX
@misc{yang2026threedimensional,
title = {{Three-dimensional QCA that are not stably circuits}},
author = {Bowen Yang},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.40235},
eprint = {2610.40235},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40235},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Three-dimensional QCA that are not stably circuits
AU - Bowen Yang
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/29
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.40235
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40235
AB - We prove that the three-dimensional chiral Z_p Clifford quantum cellular automata of Haah and of Sun--Yang--Wang--Tantivasadakarn--Chen are, for every odd prime p, not finite-depth quantum circuits, even after tensoring with arbitrary ancillary degrees of freedom and composing with translations. Previously such statements were known only inside the Clifford category. As a consequence, the group of three-dimensional QCA modulo stabilized circuits and translations is not finitely generated. The key ingredient is a new invariant of invertible subalgebras, which we conjecture to be the square of the total quantum dimension of the hosted anyon theory, modulo rational squares.
ER -