arXiv · 2512.01142
A Classification of Invertible Stabilizer Codes
Abstract
We develop a framework for the classification of invertible translation-invariant stabilizer codes modulo condensation and stabilization with simple codes. Our stabilizer codes generalize the Pauli codes: they are extracted from local commuting projector Hamiltonians whose terms are made of local alphabets more general than the Pauli operators. In particular, not all such codes can be entangled/disentangled with Clifford Quantum Cellular Automata. We compute their Witt-equivalence classes in any spatial dimension in terms of relative L-theory groups. In particular, we show that the group of equivalence classes of such codes in three spatial dimensions is isomorphic to the Witt group of abelian topological orders in two spatial dimensions. In four spatial dimensions we obtain a group of order two, conjecturally corresponding to the non-trivial invertible phase. Additionally, we propose a representing spectrum for the generalized cohomology theory corresponding to the invertible stabilizer codes.
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Roman Geiko, Georgii Shuklin. 2025-11-30. A Classification of Invertible Stabilizer Codes. https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01142
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