Floquet scars and prethermal fragmentation in a driven spin-one chain

This paper investigates the periodic dynamics of a driven spin-one chain with Z2Z_2-valued conserved quantities, revealing a rich phase diagram that includes quantum many-body scar states at high frequencies, ergodic thermalization at lower frequencies, and distinct regimes of prethermal strong and weak Hilbert space fragmentation at specific drive frequencies.

Krishanu Ghosh, Diptiman Sen, K. Sengupta2026-03-09⚛️ quant-ph

Long-range mid-infrared energy transfer mediated by hyperbolic phonon polaritons

This paper presents a theoretical framework demonstrating that hyperbolic phonon polaritons in anisotropic 2D materials, such as α\alpha-MoO3_3, can mediate and enhance long-range, highly directional mid-infrared energy transfer between dipoles at room temperature, extending interactions far beyond the near-field limits of conventional platforms.

Gonzalo Álvarez-Pérez, Simone De Liberato, Huatian Hu2026-03-09⚛️ quant-ph

Observable nonclassicality witnesses for multiplexed detection systems

This paper introduces a novel framework for constructing nonclassicality witnesses in multiplexed photon-counting systems by utilizing generalized counting statistics and half-integer powers of click moments, thereby exponentially increasing the number of applicable criteria for detecting nonclassical light, including in parity states and multimode correlations.

Suchitra Krishnaswamy, Martina Jung, Laura Ares, Martin Gärttner, Jan Sperling2026-03-09⚛️ quant-ph

The stabilizer ground state and applications to quantum simulation

This paper introduces the concept of the optimal stabilizer ground state as the highest-fidelity stabilizer approximation to a Hamiltonian's true ground state and demonstrates its efficient preparation and refinement via a genetic algorithm within measurement-based deterministic imaginary time evolution, offering a polynomially scaling quantum resource cost for quantum simulation.

Yuping Mao, Chang Chen, Jiaxing Feng, Yimeng Mao, Tim Byrnes2026-03-09⚛️ quant-ph

Leakage-protected idle operation of a triangular exchange-only spin qubit

This paper demonstrates that a triangular exchange-only spin qubit operated at a leakage-protected idle point, where simultaneous and equal pairwise exchange interactions create an energy gap, achieves superior dephasing times compared to conventional designs while enabling precise all-to-all exchange control for improved performance and novel encodings.

Joseph D. Broz, Jesse C. Hoke, Edwin Acuna, Jason R. Petta2026-03-09⚛️ quant-ph

Preparing 100-qubit symmetry-protected topological order on a digital quantum computer

This paper demonstrates the successful preparation of 100-qubit symmetry-protected topological order on IBM quantum hardware with high fidelity by employing a tensor network-based approximate quantum compiling protocol to generate shallow circuits, thereby validating current quantum processors as versatile platforms for studying large-scale emergent many-body phenomena.

George Pennington, Kevin C. Smith, James R. Garrison, Lachlan P. Lindoy, Jason Crain, Ben Jaderberg2026-03-09⚛️ quant-ph

Universal Dynamical Scaling of Strong-to-Weak Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Open Quantum Systems

This paper establishes that the late-time dynamical scaling of strong-to-weak spontaneous symmetry breaking in one-dimensional open quantum systems is universally controlled by the symmetry class of the Lindbladian rather than its spectral gap structure, resulting in exponential growth of the Rényi-2 correlation length for Z2\mathbb{Z}_2 symmetry and algebraic, filling-dependent scaling for U(1) symmetry.

Chang Shu, Kai Zhang, Kai Sun2026-03-09⚛️ quant-ph

Unifying Graph Measures and Stabilizer Decompositions for the Classical Simulation of Quantum Circuits

This paper introduces a unified framework bridging stabilizer decompositions and tensor network contraction to develop two new, memory-efficient classical simulation algorithms for quantum circuits whose runtimes are governed by the tree-width or rank-width of the associated tensor network, while also proposing refined complexity measures for tighter performance bounds.

Julien Codsi, Tuomas Laakkonen2026-03-09⚛️ quant-ph