Relaxation dynamics of the toric code in contact with a thermal reservoir: Finite-size scaling in a low temperature regime

1 code implementation • 9 May 2014 • C. Daniel Freeman, C. M. Herdman, Dylan J Gorman, K. B. Whaley

In contrast to the size-independent bound predicted for the toric code in the thermodynamic limit, we identify a low-temperature regime on finite lattices below a size-dependent crossover temperature with nontrivial finite-size and temperature scaling of the relaxation time.

Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics