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Error counting in a quantum error-correcting code and the ground-state energy of a spin glass

Hidetoshi Nishimori, Peter Sollich

cond-mat.dis-nnarXiv:cond-mat/0405313

Abstract

Upper and lower bounds are given for the number of equivalence classes of error patterns in the toric code for quantum memory. The results are used to derive a lower bound on the ground-state energy of the +/-J Ising spin glass model on the square lattice with symmetric and asymmetric bond distributions. This is a highly non-trivial example in which insights from quantum information lead directly to an explicit result on a physical quantity in the statistical mechanics of disordered systems.

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