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From Koszul-Complex Stabilizer Models to Superselection Profiles: Topological Rigidity and Nonsplit Extensions

Hao Song

quant-pharXiv:2608.09913

Abstract

Koszul-complex stabilizer models unify the toric-code hierarchy and bivariate-bicycle codes in one homological framework. To study translation-symmetry-enriched topological (SET) phases in these models and, more generally, in translation-invariant Calderbank-Shor-Steane (CSS) codes with stabilizer maps (φX,φZ), we introduce the associated topological superselection profile Sσ:=τ≥1 R\!HomR(cokerφσ,R),\ σ=X,Z. Its cohomology layers Eσ:=H( Sσ)RExtR(cokerφσ,R) encode sectors, fusion, and translation action. When finite, the =1,2,… layers describe pointlike, looplike, and higher-dimensional excitations; Sσ retains inter-layer gluing. For regular Koszul models, we compute Eσ explicitly, find Sσ single-layer, and obtain finite-size Z-logicals from Tor. Single-layer means that at most one positive-degree layer Eσ is nonzero. Our matrix-level Schanuel-lemma method proves rigidity: under a finite-resolution hypothesis, the nonzero layer and degree uniquely determine a topological CSS code's translation SET order at the stable translation-invariant Clifford level. For prime qudits the hypothesis is automatic, and a finite layer's translation kernel gives the exact minimal coarse graining to a toric-code stack. We realize admissible single-layer data. Beyond this regime, split and nonsplit extensions of 3D qubit toric codes yield eight models sharing all identical Eσ layers with trivial translation action but having distinct size-dependent ground-state degeneracies, hence distinct translation SET phases. Thus inter-layer gluing carries SET data invisible to individual layers.

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