Reconstruction of classical skyrmions from Anderson towers quantum Darwinism in action O. M. Sotnikov1 E. A. Stepanov2 M. I. Katsnelson3 F. Mila4 V. V. Mazurenko1

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Reconstruction of classical skyrmions from Anderson towers:
quantum Darwinism in action
O. M. Sotnikov1, E. A. Stepanov2, M. I. Katsnelson3, F. Mila4, V. V. Mazurenko1
1Theoretical Physics and Applied Mathematics Department,
Ural Federal University, Mira Str. 19, 620002 Ekaterinburg, Russia
2CPHT, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, F-91128 Palaiseau, France
3Radboud University, Institute for Molecules and Materials,
Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525AJ, Nijmegen, Netherlands
4Institute of Physics, ´
Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
(Dated: October 11, 2022)
The development of the quantum skyrmion concept is aimed at expanding the scope of the fun-
damental research and practical applications for classical topologically-protected magnetic textures,
and potentially paves the way for creating new quantum technologies. Undoubtedly, this calls for
establishing a connection between a classical skyrmion and its quantum counterpart: a skyrmion
wave function is an intrinsically more complex object than a non-collinear configuration of classical
spins representing the classical skyrmion. Up to date, such a quantum-classical relation was only
established on the level of different physical observables, but not for classical and quantum states
per se. In this work, we show that the classical skyrmion spin order can be reconstructed using only
the low-energy part of the spectrum of the corresponding quantum spin Hamiltonian. This can be
done by means of a flexible symmetry-free numerical realization of Anderson’s idea of the towers of
states (TOS) that allows one to study known, as well as unknown, classical spin configurations with
a proper choice of the loss function. We show that the existence of the TOS in the spectrum of the
quantum systems does not guarantee a priori that the classical skyrmion magnetization profile can
be obtained as an outcome of the actual measurement. This procedure should be complemented
by a proper decoherence mechanism due to the interaction with the environment. The later selects
a specific combination of the TOS eigenfunctions before the measurement and, thus, ensures the
transition from a highly-entangled quantum skyrmionic state to a classical non-collinear magnetic
order that is measured in real experiments. The results obtained in the context of skyrmions allow
us to take a fresh look at the problem of quantum antiferromagnetism. In particular, we provide
a quantitative characterization of the TOS contributions to classical antiferromagnetic structures
including frustrated ones.
INTRODUCTION
Despite the huge success of quantum physics, which is
one of the pillars of our science and technology, its foun-
dations still remain a subject of hot debates, and many
conceptual issues still require further investigations1–7.
In particular, searching for the connection between quan-
tum and classical descriptions of the same phenomenon
or object has a long history in physics starting from the
foundation of quantum mechanics. In this sense, the de-
velopment of the path integral concept8–10 is a bright
example showing that the classical trajectory of a parti-
cle is just one of numerous alternatives characterized by
different probabilities. In these terms, classicality means
nothing but destruction of an interference between dif-
ferent alternatives, similar to a transition from wave to
geometric optics11.
However, in the case of the classical-quantum corre-
spondence the problem is more complicated. The tran-
sition between the classical and quantum regimes can-
not be determined only by the fact that the characteris-
tic size of the system, which can be related to the de
Broglie wavelength, becomes small compared to other
length scales of the problem. According to the popu-
lar decoherence program, the classical-quantum corre-
spondence is rather related to the openness of the quan-
tum system and to the destruction of quantum interfer-
ences by the interaction with the environment12–17. The
problem is closely connected to the measurement prob-
lem18. According to Bohr’s complementarity principle19,
a quantum measurement is nothing but the result of the
interaction of a quantum particle with a classical mea-
suring device. This picture is the basis of the formal
theory of measurements developed by von Neumann20.
This theory includes a mysterious collapse of the quan-
tum wave function after the measurement. Further devel-
opments have led to a more complicated picture, includ-
ing soft measurements21 and decoherence waves in dis-
tributed quantum systems22–24. There are also analyti-
cal25 and numerical26 attempts to derive von Neumann’s
postulate from a consequent quantum consideration of
the measurement process, including decoherence by the
environment. In general, the problem does not seem to
be completely solved, and further attempts at clarifying
these key issues are required.
These questions may look too general and too abstract
but, actually, they are very closely related to a very com-
mon and important phenomenon of physics around us.
Antiferromagnetism, a very usual property of condensed
matter27, is, probably, one of the best examples. The
classical N´eel picture of magnetic sublattices for the case
of an “antiferromagnetic” exchange interaction is in an
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obvious contradiction with quantum mechanics predict-
ing a singlet ground state27. Actually, the antiferromag-
netic state can be described without introducing sublat-
tices28, but its difference with the singlet state remains
dramatic. A general way to establish the correspondence
between quantum and classical descriptions of antiferro-
magnets was open in the seminal work of P. W. Ander-
son29. It has been shown there that in some cases linear
combinations of eigenstates of a quantum Hamiltonian
that form a tower of low-energy states can be related
to an ordered state that would be the classical ground
state of the system in the thermodynamic limit. Such a
tower-of-states (TOS) approach may be of fundamental
importance because it treats the fundamental problem of
quantum-classical correspondence from a completely dif-
ferent perspective, without referring to measurements or
postulating decoherence due to the environment. More-
over, it has proven to be extremely helpful in detecting
broken symmetries with eigenspectrum of even small-size
supercells of quantum systems. Up to now, the Anderson
towers approach was mainly used for studying quantum
antiferromagnets30–32. However, it is worth mentioning
that the previous studies based on the group-theoretical
calculations were fully concentrated on the symmetry
identification of the eigenfunctions contributing to the
TOS without attempting to quantify their partial con-
tributions. Such an approach is also not flexible since it
requires to know the exact symmetry of the reconstructed
classical order, which prevents using the approach in the
case when the system is characterized by a transition to
an unknown classical state (a problem known as hidden
order).
In this paper, we report on a symmetry-free numeri-
cal technique based on gradient-descent optimization for
constructing TOS on the basis of a limited number of
calculated low-lying eigenstates of a quantum system. In
contrast to previous works, our approach provides quanti-
tative information on the TOS composition. By means of
the developed scheme we explore topologically-protected
classical magnetic skyrmions33 that attract a consider-
able attention due to their fundamental interest34–36 and
technological importance in design of atomic ultra-dense
memory37, probabilistic computing38, etc. Up to now,
most of the studies34 have been focused on a pure clas-
sical description of the skyrmionic structures, which as-
sumes that each spin in the system is a classical vec-
tor with three spatial projections. The experimental
discovery of nano-scale skyrmionic structures39 in sur-
face nanosystems significantly heats up interest to search
for quantum analogues of classical skyrmions, for which
quantum effects may play a crucial role40.
Recent theoretical studies41–47 suggested that the
ground state of some quantum spin Hamiltonians with
competing isotropic and anisotropic interactions can be
considered as analogs of classical skyrmions since the
magnetization, the susceptibility, and the scalar chirality
calculated for these quantum ground states agree with
those obtained for the corresponding classical models.
However, as was shown in a previous work [47], both pro-
jective measurements and site-resolved average magneti-
zation calculated in the ground state of periodic quantum
systems do not resemble the typical pattern of a classical
skyrmion as seen in experiments. For this reason, one
can formally define the quantum skyrmion as a quantum
state for which the spin-spin correlation functions repro-
duce the same quantities in the classical version of the
problem. The natural question is then what is the mech-
anism through which one can observe a classical skyrmion
in a system which is a priori quantum.
In this work, we show that the connection between the
classical and quantum skyrmion systems can be estab-
lished not only at the level of the observables, as done up
to now, but also at the more general level of a quantum
state and of macroscopic classical order per se. To this
aim we use the concept of Anderson’s tower of states and
explore both the towers of quantum wave functions to
reconstruct classical solutions, and the towers of classical
configurations needed to reproduce the quantum ground
state. The analysis of the composition of the TOS that
we have obtained for magnetic skyrmions and for antifer-
romagnets uncovers important details of Anderson’s the-
ory that were not addressed in previous group-theoretical
considerations. We argue that the environment plays a
crucial role in selecting specific combinations of the quan-
tum states that build the TOS that correspond to classi-
cal order and are known as pointer states in decoherence
theory (Quantum Darwinism). Thus, quantum decoher-
ence should be considered as an important part of the
TOS theory. Since the TOS analysis itself can be used as
a more effective search for pointer states within the de-
coherence program, both theories will benefit from this
integration.
RESULTS
Protocol for constructing the Anderson tower
Formally, a quantum wave function corresponding to
any classical spin texture can be defined as a product of
coherent states of individual spins48–50
|ΨTi=Y
i
[cosθi
2eiφi
2|↑i + sinθi
2eiφi
2|↓i],(1)
where the polar angles θjand φjset a local basis for
each spin. Below we will refer to this state as a coher-
ent state or a target wave function. The consequent
projective measurements20 of the state ΨTin σz,σx
and σybases result in a set of projections hˆ
Sz
ii,hˆ
Sx
ii,
and hˆ
Sy
iifor each spin. The latter can be associated
with the direction of the classical magnetic moment
miin magnetic structures measured in spin-polarized
scanning tunneling microscopy experiments39. More
specifically, hmx
ii= sin θicos φi,hmy
ii= sin θisin φi, and
hmz
ii= cos θi. Thus, one can establish a formal connec-
tion between parameters of the coherent state and the
3
A B
2
quantum
skyrmion
classical
skyrmion
N = 2 N = 3 N = 7
N = 20
Anderson towers
FIG. 1. Protocol for constructing Anderson towers of
states in the case of the skyrmionic problem. (A) (B) Evo-
lution of 19-site plaquette magnetization calculated for the
reconstructed wave function corresponding to the classical
skyrmion with dierent number of eigenstates of the parent
spin Hamiltonian.
As it can be seen from Fig.1, the ground state of the
quantum Hamiltonian Eq.2 is characterized by the uni-
form magnetization. Expectedly, the first approximation
of the classical system shows initial trends toward tradi-
tional skyrmionic profile and symmetry breaking. Such
an approximation is formed with the ground state and
6-fold degenerated first excited state. Further extension
of the set of the excited states used to reconstruct | cl
ski
increase the fidelity between target wave function and its
approximation. For N= 20 the fidelity value reaches
95%.
We would like to stress that this magnetization analysis
is the first stage on the way to a complete charaterization
of the transition from quantum skyrmion wave function
to symmetry-broken classical skyrmion state, which will
include the calculation of the scalar chirality operator
expectation values and scanning its distribution over the
system in question. Another quantity of our special in-
terest in this study is the entanglement entropy that is
undergoing drastical changes during the the reconstruc-
tion of the classical skyrmion state with zero entropy
from the wave functions with maximal entanglements.
Methodologically, the construction of the Anderson tower
of states is a kind of optimization problem aiming to de-
fine a superposition of the quantum eigenstates that has
a maximal fidelity with the coherent wave function rep-
resenting given classical state. Thus we will first discuss
a gradient-descent method we developed to perform such
an optimization.
Random-phase gradient descent approach
Scalar Chirality. As it was shown in Ref.3 the only
physical quantity allows one to unambiguously identify
the quantum skyrmion state on the lattice is quantum
chirality, the following correlation function
Q
ijk =1
hˆ
Si·[ˆ
Sjˆ
Sk]i,(3)
i,j, and kdepict three dierent spins that form an el-
ementary plaquette. The total chirality is defined as a
sum of local chiralities of individual plaquettes, Q =
PhijkiQ
ijk. In the case of the DMI Hamiltonian defined
classical
skyrmion
scalar chirality density
quantum
skyrmion
FIG. 2. Triangle-resolved density of the scalar chirality
Q
ijk calculated for real quantum skyrmion state (left plaque-
tte), coherent state with classical profile of the magnetization
(right plaquette) and for quantum states being dierent ap-
proximations of the classical skyrmion within the Anderson
tower approach.
on the infinite lattice that can be simulated with a super-
cell with periodic boundary conditions, all the triangular
plaquettes produce the same contribution to the total
chirality. In this sense the distribution of the chirality
is uniform and similar to the distribution of the mag-
netization over the system. In the case of the classical
skyrmionic structures the situation is opposite.
Entropy
ˆ
H n=En n(4)
1M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and
Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
2P. W. Anderson, An Approximate Quantum Theory of the
Antiferromagnetic Ground State, Physical Review 86, 694
(1952).
3O. M. Sotnikov, V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois, F. Mila,
M. I. Katsnelson, and E. A. Stepanov, Phys. Rev. B 103,
L060404 (2021).
4R.A. Istomin, A.S. Moskvin, Overlap integral for quantum
skyrmions, Pis’ma v ZhETF 71, 487 (2000).
5A.M. Perelomov, Generalized coherent states and their ap-
plications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986.
6E.A. Stepanov, S.A. Nikolaev, C. Dutreix, M.I. Kat-
snelson and V.V. Mazurenko, Heisenberg-exchange-free
nanoskyrmion mosaic, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 31
17LT01 (2019).
7D. I. Badrtdinov, S. A. Nikolaev, M. I. Katsnelson, and V.
V. Mazurenko, Spin-orbit coupling and magnetic interac-
tions in Si(111):C,Si,Sn,Pb, Phys. Rev. B 94, 224418 (2016).
8I. A. Iakovlev, O. M. Sotnikov, and V. V. Mazurenko,
Bimeron nanoconfined design, Phys. Rev. B 97, 184415
(2018).
9
E
2
quantum
skyrmion
classical
skyrmion
N = 2 N = 3 N = 7
N = 20
Anderson towers
FIG. 1. Protocol for constructing Anderson towers of
states in the case of the skyrmionic problem. (A) (B) Evo-
lution of 19-site plaquette magnetization calculated for the
reconstructed wave function corresponding to the classical
skyrmion with dierent number of eigenstates of the parent
spin Hamiltonian.
As it can be seen from Fig.1, the ground state of the
quantum Hamiltonian Eq.2 is characterized by the uni-
form magnetization. Expectedly, the first approximation
of the classical system shows initial trends toward tradi-
tional skyrmionic profile and symmetry breaking. Such
an approximation is formed with the ground state and
6-fold degenerated first excited state. Further extension
of the set of the excited states used to reconstruct | cl
ski
increase the fidelity between target wave function and its
approximation. For N= 20 the fidelity value reaches
95%.
We would like to stress that this magnetization analysis
is the first stage on the way to a complete charaterization
of the transition from quantum skyrmion wave function
to symmetry-broken classical skyrmion state, which will
include the calculation of the scalar chirality operator
expectation values and scanning its distribution over the
system in question. Another quantity of our special in-
terest in this study is the entanglement entropy that is
undergoing drastical changes during the the reconstruc-
tion of the classical skyrmion state with zero entropy
from the wave functions with maximal entanglements.
Methodologically, the construction of the Anderson tower
of states is a kind of optimization problem aiming to de-
fine a superposition of the quantum eigenstates that has
a maximal fidelity with the coherent wave function rep-
resenting given classical state. Thus we will first discuss
a gradient-descent method we developed to perform such
an optimization.
Random-phase gradient descent approach
Scalar Chirality. As it was shown in Ref.3 the only
physical quantity allows one to unambiguously identify
the quantum skyrmion state on the lattice is quantum
chirality, the following correlation function
Q
ijk =1
hˆ
Si·[ˆ
Sjˆ
Sk]i,(3)
i,j, and kdepict three dierent spins that form an el-
ementary plaquette. The total chirality is defined as a
sum of local chiralities of individual plaquettes, Q =
PhijkiQ
ijk. In the case of the DMI Hamiltonian defined
classical
skyrmion
scalar chirality density
quantum
skyrmion
FIG. 2. Triangle-resolved density of the scalar chirality
Q
ijk calculated for real quantum skyrmion state (left plaque-
tte), coherent state with classical profile of the magnetization
(right plaquette) and for quantum states being dierent ap-
proximations of the classical skyrmion within the Anderson
tower approach.
on the infinite lattice that can be simulated with a super-
cell with periodic boundary conditions, all the triangular
plaquettes produce the same contribution to the total
chirality. In this sense the distribution of the chirality
is uniform and similar to the distribution of the mag-
netization over the system. In the case of the classical
skyrmionic structures the situation is opposite.
Entropy
ˆ
H n=En n(4)
0
1
2
N
1M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and
Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
2P. W. Anderson, An Approximate Quantum Theory of the
Antiferromagnetic Ground State, Physical Review 86, 694
(1952).
3O. M. Sotnikov, V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois, F. Mila,
M. I. Katsnelson, and E. A. Stepanov, Phys. Rev. B 103,
L060404 (2021).
4R.A. Istomin, A.S. Moskvin, Overlap integral for quantum
skyrmions, Pis’ma v ZhETF 71, 487 (2000).
5A.M. Perelomov, Generalized coherent states and their ap-
plications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986.
6E.A. Stepanov, S.A. Nikolaev, C. Dutreix, M.I. Kat-
snelson and V.V. Mazurenko, Heisenberg-exchange-free
nanoskyrmion mosaic, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 31
17LT01 (2019).
7D. I. Badrtdinov, S. A. Nikolaev, M. I. Katsnelson, and V.
V. Mazurenko, Spin-orbit coupling and magnetic interac-
tions in Si(111):C,Si,Sn,Pb, Phys. Rev. B 94, 224418 (2016).
8I. A. Iakovlev, O. M. Sotnikov, and V. V. Mazurenko,
Bimeron nanoconfined design, Phys. Rev. B 97, 184415
(2018).
9
2
quantum
skyrmion
classical
skyrmion
N = 2 N = 3 N = 7
N = 20
Anderson towers
FIG. 1. Protocol for constructing Anderson towers of
states in the case of the skyrmionic problem. (A) (B) Evo-
lution of 19-site plaquette magnetization calculated for the
reconstructed wave function corresponding to the classical
skyrmion with dierent number of eigenstates of the parent
spin Hamiltonian.
As it can be seen from Fig.1, the ground state of the
quantum Hamiltonian Eq.2 is characterized by the uni-
form magnetization. Expectedly, the first approximation
of the classical system shows initial trends toward tradi-
tional skyrmionic profile and symmetry breaking. Such
an approximation is formed with the ground state and
6-fold degenerated first excited state. Further extension
of the set of the excited states used to reconstruct | cl
ski
increase the fidelity between target wave function and its
approximation. For N= 20 the fidelity value reaches
95%.
We would like to stress that this magnetization analysis
is the first stage on the way to a complete charaterization
of the transition from quantum skyrmion wave function
to symmetry-broken classical skyrmion state, which will
include the calculation of the scalar chirality operator
expectation values and scanning its distribution over the
system in question. Another quantity of our special in-
terest in this study is the entanglement entropy that is
undergoing drastical changes during the the reconstruc-
tion of the classical skyrmion state with zero entropy
from the wave functions with maximal entanglements.
Methodologically, the construction of the Anderson tower
of states is a kind of optimization problem aiming to de-
fine a superposition of the quantum eigenstates that has
a maximal fidelity with the coherent wave function rep-
resenting given classical state. Thus we will first discuss
a gradient-descent method we developed to perform such
an optimization.
Random-phase gradient descent approach
Scalar Chirality. As it was shown in Ref.3 the only
physical quantity allows one to unambiguously identify
the quantum skyrmion state on the lattice is quantum
chirality, the following correlation function
Q
ijk =1
hˆ
Si·[ˆ
Sjˆ
Sk]i,(3)
i,j, and kdepict three dierent spins that form an el-
ementary plaquette. The total chirality is defined as a
sum of local chiralities of individual plaquettes, Q =
PhijkiQ
ijk. In the case of the DMI Hamiltonian defined
classical
skyrmion
scalar chirality density
quantum
skyrmion
FIG. 2. Triangle-resolved density of the scalar chirality
Q
ijk calculated for real quantum skyrmion state (left plaque-
tte), coherent state with classical profile of the magnetization
(right plaquette) and for quantum states being dierent ap-
proximations of the classical skyrmion within the Anderson
tower approach.
on the infinite lattice that can be simulated with a super-
cell with periodic boundary conditions, all the triangular
plaquettes produce the same contribution to the total
chirality. In this sense the distribution of the chirality
is uniform and similar to the distribution of the mag-
netization over the system. In the case of the classical
skyrmionic structures the situation is opposite.
Entropy
ˆ
H n=En n(4)
0
1
2
N
1M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and
Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
2P. W. Anderson, An Approximate Quantum Theory of the
Antiferromagnetic Ground State, Physical Review 86, 694
(1952).
3O. M. Sotnikov, V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois, F. Mila,
M. I. Katsnelson, and E. A. Stepanov, Phys. Rev. B 103,
L060404 (2021).
4R.A. Istomin, A.S. Moskvin, Overlap integral for quantum
skyrmions, Pis’ma v ZhETF 71, 487 (2000).
5A.M. Perelomov, Generalized coherent states and their ap-
plications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986.
6E.A. Stepanov, S.A. Nikolaev, C. Dutreix, M.I. Kat-
snelson and V.V. Mazurenko, Heisenberg-exchange-free
nanoskyrmion mosaic, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 31
17LT01 (2019).
7D. I. Badrtdinov, S. A. Nikolaev, M. I. Katsnelson, and V.
V. Mazurenko, Spin-orbit coupling and magnetic interac-
tions in Si(111):C,Si,Sn,Pb, Phys. Rev. B 94, 224418 (2016).
8I. A. Iakovlev, O. M. Sotnikov, and V. V. Mazurenko,
Bimeron nanoconfined design, Phys. Rev. B 97, 184415
(2018).
9
Hamiltonian
problem
2
quantum
skyrmion
classical
skyrmion
N = 2 N = 3 N = 7
N = 20
Anderson towers
FIG. 1. Protocol for constructing Anderson towers of
states in the case of the skyrmionic problem. (A) (B) Evo-
lution of 19-site plaquette magnetization calculated for the
reconstructed wave function corresponding to the classical
skyrmion with dierent number of eigenstates of the parent
spin Hamiltonian.
As it can be seen from Fig.1, the ground state of the
quantum Hamiltonian Eq.2 is characterized by the uni-
form magnetization. Expectedly, the first approximation
of the classical system shows initial trends toward tradi-
tional skyrmionic profile and symmetry breaking. Such
an approximation is formed with the ground state and
6-fold degenerated first excited state. Further extension
of the set of the excited states used to reconstruct | cl
ski
increase the fidelity between target wave function and its
approximation. For N= 20 the fidelity value reaches
95%.
We would like to stress that this magnetization analysis
is the first stage on the way to a complete charaterization
of the transition from quantum skyrmion wave function
to symmetry-broken classical skyrmion state, which will
include the calculation of the scalar chirality operator
expectation values and scanning its distribution over the
system in question. Another quantity of our special in-
terest in this study is the entanglement entropy that is
undergoing drastical changes during the the reconstruc-
tion of the classical skyrmion state with zero entropy
from the wave functions with maximal entanglements.
Methodologically, the construction of the Anderson tower
of states is a kind of optimization problem aiming to de-
fine a superposition of the quantum eigenstates that has
a maximal fidelity with the coherent wave function rep-
resenting given classical state. Thus we will first discuss
a gradient-descent method we developed to perform such
an optimization.
Random-phase gradient descent approach
Scalar Chirality. As it was shown in Ref.3 the only
physical quantity allows one to unambiguously identify
the quantum skyrmion state on the lattice is quantum
chirality, the following correlation function
Q
ijk =1
hˆ
Si·[ˆ
Sjˆ
Sk]i,(3)
i,j, and kdepict three dierent spins that form an el-
ementary plaquette. The total chirality is defined as a
sum of local chiralities of individual plaquettes, Q =
PhijkiQ
ijk. In the case of the DMI Hamiltonian defined
classical
skyrmion
scalar chirality density
quantum
skyrmion
FIG. 2. Triangle-resolved density of the scalar chirality
Q
ijk calculated for real quantum skyrmion state (left plaque-
tte), coherent state with classical profile of the magnetization
(right plaquette) and for quantum states being dierent ap-
proximations of the classical skyrmion within the Anderson
tower approach.
on the infinite lattice that can be simulated with a super-
cell with periodic boundary conditions, all the triangular
plaquettes produce the same contribution to the total
chirality. In this sense the distribution of the chirality
is uniform and similar to the distribution of the mag-
netization over the system. In the case of the classical
skyrmionic structures the situation is opposite.
Entropy
ˆ
H n=En n(4)
0
1
2
N
1M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and
Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
2P. W. Anderson, An Approximate Quantum Theory of the
Antiferromagnetic Ground State, Physical Review 86, 694
(1952).
3O. M. Sotnikov, V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois, F. Mila,
M. I. Katsnelson, and E. A. Stepanov, Phys. Rev. B 103,
L060404 (2021).
4R.A. Istomin, A.S. Moskvin, Overlap integral for quantum
skyrmions, Pis’ma v ZhETF 71, 487 (2000).
5A.M. Perelomov, Generalized coherent states and their ap-
plications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986.
6E.A. Stepanov, S.A. Nikolaev, C. Dutreix, M.I. Kat-
snelson and V.V. Mazurenko, Heisenberg-exchange-free
nanoskyrmion mosaic, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 31
17LT01 (2019).
7D. I. Badrtdinov, S. A. Nikolaev, M. I. Katsnelson, and V.
V. Mazurenko, Spin-orbit coupling and magnetic interac-
tions in Si(111):C,Si,Sn,Pb, Phys. Rev. B 94, 224418 (2016).
8I. A. Iakovlev, O. M. Sotnikov, and V. V. Mazurenko,
Bimeron nanoconfined design, Phys. Rev. B 97, 184415
(2018).
9
2
quantum
skyrmion
classical
skyrmion
N = 2 N = 3 N = 7
N = 20
Anderson towers
FIG. 1. Protocol for constructing Anderson towers of
states in the case of the skyrmionic problem. (A) (B) Evo-
lution of 19-site plaquette magnetization calculated for the
reconstructed wave function corresponding to the classical
skyrmion with dierent number of eigenstates of the parent
spin Hamiltonian.
As it can be seen from Fig.1, the ground state of the
quantum Hamiltonian Eq.2 is characterized by the uni-
form magnetization. Expectedly, the first approximation
of the classical system shows initial trends toward tradi-
tional skyrmionic profile and symmetry breaking. Such
an approximation is formed with the ground state and
6-fold degenerated first excited state. Further extension
of the set of the excited states used to reconstruct | cl
ski
increase the fidelity between target wave function and its
approximation. For N= 20 the fidelity value reaches
95%.
We would like to stress that this magnetization analysis
is the first stage on the way to a complete charaterization
of the transition from quantum skyrmion wave function
to symmetry-broken classical skyrmion state, which will
include the calculation of the scalar chirality operator
expectation values and scanning its distribution over the
system in question. Another quantity of our special in-
terest in this study is the entanglement entropy that is
undergoing drastical changes during the the reconstruc-
tion of the classical skyrmion state with zero entropy
from the wave functions with maximal entanglements.
Methodologically, the construction of the Anderson tower
of states is a kind of optimization problem aiming to de-
fine a superposition of the quantum eigenstates that has
a maximal fidelity with the coherent wave function rep-
resenting given classical state. Thus we will first discuss
a gradient-descent method we developed to perform such
an optimization.
Random-phase gradient descent approach
Scalar Chirality. As it was shown in Ref.3 the only
physical quantity allows one to unambiguously identify
the quantum skyrmion state on the lattice is quantum
chirality, the following correlation function
Q
ijk =1
hˆ
Si·[ˆ
Sjˆ
Sk]i,(3)
i,j, and kdepict three dierent spins that form an el-
ementary plaquette. The total chirality is defined as a
sum of local chiralities of individual plaquettes, Q =
PhijkiQ
ijk. In the case of the DMI Hamiltonian defined
classical
skyrmion
scalar chirality density
quantum
skyrmion
FIG. 2. Triangle-resolved density of the scalar chirality
Q
ijk calculated for real quantum skyrmion state (left plaque-
tte), coherent state with classical profile of the magnetization
(right plaquette) and for quantum states being dierent ap-
proximations of the classical skyrmion within the Anderson
tower approach.
on the infinite lattice that can be simulated with a super-
cell with periodic boundary conditions, all the triangular
plaquettes produce the same contribution to the total
chirality. In this sense the distribution of the chirality
is uniform and similar to the distribution of the mag-
netization over the system. In the case of the classical
skyrmionic structures the situation is opposite.
Entropy
ˆ
H n=En n(4)
0
1
2
N
1M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and
Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
2P. W. Anderson, An Approximate Quantum Theory of the
Antiferromagnetic Ground State, Physical Review 86, 694
(1952).
3O. M. Sotnikov, V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois, F. Mila,
M. I. Katsnelson, and E. A. Stepanov, Phys. Rev. B 103,
L060404 (2021).
4R.A. Istomin, A.S. Moskvin, Overlap integral for quantum
skyrmions, Pis’ma v ZhETF 71, 487 (2000).
5A.M. Perelomov, Generalized coherent states and their ap-
plications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986.
6E.A. Stepanov, S.A. Nikolaev, C. Dutreix, M.I. Kat-
snelson and V.V. Mazurenko, Heisenberg-exchange-free
nanoskyrmion mosaic, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 31
17LT01 (2019).
7D. I. Badrtdinov, S. A. Nikolaev, M. I. Katsnelson, and V.
V. Mazurenko, Spin-orbit coupling and magnetic interac-
tions in Si(111):C,Si,Sn,Pb, Phys. Rev. B 94, 224418 (2016).
8I. A. Iakovlev, O. M. Sotnikov, and V. V. Mazurenko,
Bimeron nanoconfined design, Phys. Rev. B 97, 184415
(2018).
9
Eigenspectrum Approximation
quantum
skyrmion
classical
skyrmion
N = 2 N = 3 N = 7
N = 20
Anderson towers
classical
skyrmion
scalar chirality density
quantum
skyrmion
CGradient-descent optimization
2
quantum
skyrmion
classical
skyrmion
N = 2 N = 3 N = 7
N = 20
Anderson towers
FIG. 1. Protocol for constructing Anderson towers of
states in the case of the skyrmionic problem. (A) (B) Evo-
lution of 19-site plaquette magnetization calculated for the
reconstructed wave function corresponding to the classical
skyrmion with dierent number of eigenstates of the parent
spin Hamiltonian.
As it can be seen from Fig.1, the ground state of the
quantum Hamiltonian Eq.2 is characterized by the uni-
form magnetization. Expectedly, the first approximation
of the classical system shows initial trends toward tradi-
tional skyrmionic profile and symmetry breaking. Such
an approximation is formed with the ground state and
6-fold degenerated first excited state. Further extension
of the set of the excited states used to reconstruct | cl
ski
increase the fidelity between target wave function and its
approximation. For N= 20 the fidelity value reaches
95%.
We would like to stress that this magnetization analysis
is the first stage on the way to a complete charaterization
of the transition from quantum skyrmion wave function
to symmetry-broken classical skyrmion state, which will
include the calculation of the scalar chirality operator
expectation values and scanning its distribution over the
system in question. Another quantity of our special in-
terest in this study is the entanglement entropy that is
undergoing drastical changes during the the reconstruc-
tion of the classical skyrmion state with zero entropy
from the wave functions with maximal entanglements.
Methodologically, the construction of the Anderson tower
of states is a kind of optimization problem aiming to de-
fine a superposition of the quantum eigenstates that has
a maximal fidelity with the coherent wave function rep-
resenting given classical state. Thus we will first discuss
a gradient-descent method we developed to perform such
an optimization.
Random-phase gradient descent approach
Scalar Chirality. As it was shown in Ref.3 the only
physical quantity allows one to unambiguously identify
the quantum skyrmion state on the lattice is quantum
chirality, the following correlation function
Q
ijk =1
hˆ
Si·[ˆ
Sjˆ
Sk]i,(3)
i,j, and kdepict three dierent spins that form an el-
ementary plaquette. The total chirality is defined as a
sum of local chiralities of individual plaquettes, Q =
PhijkiQ
ijk. In the case of the DMI Hamiltonian defined
classical
skyrmion
scalar chirality density
quantum
skyrmion
FIG. 2. Triangle-resolved density of the scalar chirality
Q
ijk calculated for real quantum skyrmion state (left plaque-
tte), coherent state with classical profile of the magnetization
(right plaquette) and for quantum states being dierent ap-
proximations of the classical skyrmion within the Anderson
tower approach.
on the infinite lattice that can be simulated with a super-
cell with periodic boundary conditions, all the triangular
plaquettes produce the same contribution to the total
chirality. In this sense the distribution of the chirality
is uniform and similar to the distribution of the mag-
netization over the system. In the case of the classical
skyrmionic structures the situation is opposite.
Entropy
ˆ
H n=En n(4)
0
1
2
N
A=
k
X
n=0
n n(5)
h A| Ti=0.95 (6)
@ A
@↵n
(7)
1M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and
Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
2P. W. Anderson, An Approximate Quantum Theory of the
Antiferromagnetic Ground State, Physical Review 86, 694
(1952).
3O. M. Sotnikov, V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois, F. Mila,
M. I. Katsnelson, and E. A. Stepanov, Phys. Rev. B 103,
L060404 (2021).
4R.A. Istomin, A.S. Moskvin, Overlap integral for quantum
skyrmions, Pis’ma v ZhETF 71, 487 (2000).
Fidelity
3
0
1
2
N
k= 100
A=
k
X
n=0
n n(5)
h A| Ti=0.95 (6)
@ A
@↵n
(7)
F=|h A| Ti|(8)
1M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and
Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
2P. W. Anderson, An Approximate Quantum Theory of the
Antiferromagnetic Ground State, Physical Review 86, 694
(1952).
3O. M. Sotnikov, V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois, F. Mila,
M. I. Katsnelson, and E. A. Stepanov, Phys. Rev. B 103,
L060404 (2021).
4R.A. Istomin, A.S. Moskvin, Overlap integral for quantum
skyrmions, Pis’ma v ZhETF 71, 487 (2000).
5A.M. Perelomov, Generalized coherent states and their ap-
plications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986.
6E.A. Stepanov, S.A. Nikolaev, C. Dutreix, M.I. Kat-
snelson and V.V. Mazurenko, Heisenberg-exchange-free
nanoskyrmion mosaic, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 31
17LT01 (2019).
7D. I. Badrtdinov, S. A. Nikolaev, M. I. Katsnelson, and V.
V. Mazurenko, Spin-orbit coupling and magnetic interac-
tions in Si(111):C,Si,Sn,Pb, Phys. Rev. B 94, 224418 (2016).
8I. A. Iakovlev, O. M. Sotnikov, and V. V. Mazurenko,
Bimeron nanoconfined design, Phys. Rev. B 97, 184415
(2018).
9
3
0
1
2
N
k=1
A=
k
X
n=0
n n(5)
h A| Ti=0.95 (6)
@ A
@↵n
(7)
F=|h A| Ti|(8)
F0 (9)
F1 (10)
1M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and
Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
2P. W. Anderson, An Approximate Quantum Theory of the
Antiferromagnetic Ground State, Physical Review 86, 694
(1952).
3O. M. Sotnikov, V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois, F. Mila,
M. I. Katsnelson, and E. A. Stepanov, Phys. Rev. B 103,
L060404 (2021).
4R.A. Istomin, A.S. Moskvin, Overlap integral for quantum
skyrmions, Pis’ma v ZhETF 71, 487 (2000).
5A.M. Perelomov, Generalized coherent states and their ap-
plications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986.
6E.A. Stepanov, S.A. Nikolaev, C. Dutreix, M.I. Kat-
snelson and V.V. Mazurenko, Heisenberg-exchange-free
nanoskyrmion mosaic, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 31
17LT01 (2019).
7D. I. Badrtdinov, S. A. Nikolaev, M. I. Katsnelson, and V.
V. Mazurenko, Spin-orbit coupling and magnetic interac-
tions in Si(111):C,Si,Sn,Pb, Phys. Rev. B 94, 224418 (2016).
8I. A. Iakovlev, O. M. Sotnikov, and V. V. Mazurenko,
Bimeron nanoconfined design, Phys. Rev. B 97, 184415
(2018).
9
3
0
1
2
N
k=1
A=
k
X
n=0
n n(5)
h A| Ti=0.95 (6)
@ A
@↵n
(7)
F=|h A| Ti|(8)
F0 (9)
F1 (10)
1M. A. Nielsen, I. L. Chuang, Quantum Computation and
Quantum Information, Cambridge University Press, 2010.
2P. W. Anderson, An Approximate Quantum Theory of the
Antiferromagnetic Ground State, Physical Review 86, 694
(1952).
3O. M. Sotnikov, V. V. Mazurenko , J. Colbois, F. Mila,
M. I. Katsnelson, and E. A. Stepanov, Phys. Rev. B 103,
L060404 (2021).
4R.A. Istomin, A.S. Moskvin, Overlap integral for quantum
skyrmions, Pis’ma v ZhETF 71, 487 (2000).
5A.M. Perelomov, Generalized coherent states and their ap-
plications, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1986.
6E.A. Stepanov, S.A. Nikolaev, C. Dutreix, M.I. Kat-
snelson and V.V. Mazurenko, Heisenberg-exchange-free
nanoskyrmion mosaic, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 31
17LT01 (2019).
7D. I. Badrtdinov, S. A. Nikolaev, M. I. Katsnelson, and V.
V. Mazurenko, Spin-orbit coupling and magnetic interac-
tions in Si(111):C,Si,Sn,Pb, Phys. Rev. B 94, 224418 (2016).
8I. A. Iakovlev, O. M. Sotnikov, and V. V. Mazurenko,
Bimeron nanoconfined design, Phys. Rev. B 97, 184415
(2018).
9
FIG. 1. Protocol for constructing Anderson’s towers of states. (A) For the given Hamiltonian one calculates a set of low-lying
eigenstates. (B) On the basis of the calculated eigenstates, an initial approximation of the target state is prepared. The
complex coefficients αnare chosen to be random. (C) The coefficients are optimized within a gradient-descent approach aiming
to maximize the fidelity between approximation and target wave functions. Nis the corresponding number of energy levels.
classical magnetic moments of a quantum system ob-
served in real or numerical experiments: θi= arccoshmz
ii
and φi= arctan hmy
ii
hmx
ii.
In order to construct the Anderson tower for a
quantum system we follow the key steps visualized in
Fig. 1 A-C. First, we perform the exact diagonalization
of a quantum Hamiltonian and determine its eigenstates
Ψn(Fig. 1 A). We consider only the low-lying part of the
eigenspectrum n[0, k] and introduce the initial approx-
imation for the target wave function ΨAwith random
complex coefficients αn(Fig. 1 B). Further, these coef-
ficients are varied using the gradient-descent method to
get the maximal fidelity between ΨAand ΨT(Fig. 1 C).
Here, as for any optimization procedure, the choice of
the loss function that is responsible for the quality of the
resulting approximation and convergence speed plays a
central role. In this work it is given by the following
expression:
E(α)=1− |hΨT|ΨA(α)i|.(2)
The coefficients are updated as
αnew =αold γE
αold
,(3)
where γis the gradient-descent step that is taken to be
1. This choice for the loss function can be justified by
the fact that the fidelity is a standard metric to define
the distance between the two quantum states51.
An important property of the proposed numerical
scheme for constructing TOS is that we can quantita-
tively control the quality of the approximation for ΨA
with the parameter kthat truncates the eigenspectrum.
It is worth noting that in previous works the construction
of the Anderson TOS for antiferromagnets was mainly
based on a symmetry-based selection of the low-lying
states of the eigenspectrum in order to find a signature
of a symmetry-broken state that can be the ground state
of the system in the thermodynamic limit52. Such a
symmetry-based realization of the Anderson idea limits
its possible applications and does not provide quantita-
tive information on the contribution of a particular eigen-
state to the TOS, which, as we show below, can be done
with our protocol. In addition, in our approach the loss
function (2) can be replaced by another form with milder
conditions, which might be useful in the case where the
precise form of the target state ΨTis unknown.
Skyrmionic tower of states
The implementation of the proposed protocol in the
case of magnetic skyrmions requires a specific choice of
spin Hamiltonian. While various microscopic mecha-
nisms for stabilizing skyrmion structures can be consid-
ered in the quantum case41–46, we focus on the most tra-
ditional one which is based on the competition between
the isotropic and the anisotropic exchange interactions
in the presence of an external magnetic field. The cor-
responding quantum Hamiltonian on a two-dimensional
lattice is given by:
ˆ
Hsk =X
ij
Jij ˆ
Si·ˆ
Sj+X
ij
Dij [ˆ
Si׈
Sj] + X
i
Bˆ
Sz
i.(4)
Here, Jij is the isotropic Heisenberg exchange interac-
tion. Dij is an in-plane vector that points in the direction
perpendicular to the bond between neighboring iand j
lattice sites and describes the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya in-
teraction (DMI). Bis an external uniform magnetic field
applied along the zdirection. In the following, for con-
structing the skyrmionic towers, we use the parameters
J= 0.5, |D|= 1 and B= 0.44, which guarantee the
stabilization of the quantum skyrmion wave function as
the quantum ground state47.
In this work we are interested in exploring the proper-
ties of the eigenspectrum, thus the exact diagonalization
of the constructed Hamiltonian is performed. Following
Ref. [47], a 19-site supercell with periodic boundary con-
ditions on the triangular lattice is considered. The cor-
responding technical details are described in the Meth-
ods section. The low-energy part of the eigenspectrum
is presented in Fig. 2 A and is characterized by a size-
able gap between the first 19 eigenstates and the rest of
the spectrum. The dependence of the gap on the value
of the magnetic field is discussed in the Methods sec-
tion. As we will show below, the states at the bottom of
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ReconstructionofclassicalskyrmionsfromAndersontowers:quantumDarwinisminactionO.M.Sotnikov1,E.A.Stepanov2,M.I.Katsnelson3,F.Mila4,V.V.Mazurenko11TheoreticalPhysicsandAppliedMathematicsDepartment,UralFederalUniversity,MiraStr.19,620002Ekaterinburg,Russia2CPHT,CNRS,EcolePolytechnique,InstitutPolytechni...

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