Non-Clifford quantum cellular automata from invertible topological quantum field theories
Source: Originally published on arXiv quant-ph on July 27, 2026.
arXiv:2607.21697v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantum cellular automata (QCAs) describe locality-preserving quantum dynamics and connect quantum information, many-body physics, and topological quantum field theory (TQFT). Constructing a QCA from a TQFT, however, is challenging. Although a topological action can produce a commuting Hamiltonian realizing the desired ground state, it does not by itself specify an automorphism of the full local operator algebra. In this work, we develop a unified algebraic construction that extends the commuting generators of the Hamiltonian to a complete separator-flipper algebra on the full tensor-product Hilbert space, providing a microscopic definition of the corresponding QCA. In three spatial dimensions, our formalism unifies all previously known QCA c...
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