DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Bulk Entanglement Spectrum Reveals Quantum Criticality within a Topological State

Abstract

A quantum phase transition is usually achieved by tuning physical parameters in a Hamiltonian at zero temperature. We show that the ground state of a topological phase itself encodes critical properties of its transition to a trivial phase. To extract this information, we introduce an extensive partition of the system into two subsystems both of which extend throughout the bulk in all directions. The resulting bulk entanglement spectrum has a low-lying part that resembles the excitation spectrum of a bulk Hamiltonian, which allows us to probe a topological phase transition from a single wave function by tuning either the geometry of the partition or the entanglement temperature. As an example, this remarkable correspondence between the topological phase transition and the entanglement criticality is rigorously established for integer quantum Hall states.

Authors:
 [1];  [1]
  1. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1505721
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1180117
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0010526
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review Letters
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 113; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

Hsieh, Timothy H., and Fu, Liang. Bulk Entanglement Spectrum Reveals Quantum Criticality within a Topological State. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.113.106801.
Hsieh, Timothy H., & Fu, Liang. Bulk Entanglement Spectrum Reveals Quantum Criticality within a Topological State. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.113.106801
Hsieh, Timothy H., and Fu, Liang. Thu . "Bulk Entanglement Spectrum Reveals Quantum Criticality within a Topological State". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.113.106801. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1505721.
@article{osti_1505721,
title = {Bulk Entanglement Spectrum Reveals Quantum Criticality within a Topological State},
author = {Hsieh, Timothy H. and Fu, Liang},
abstractNote = {A quantum phase transition is usually achieved by tuning physical parameters in a Hamiltonian at zero temperature. We show that the ground state of a topological phase itself encodes critical properties of its transition to a trivial phase. To extract this information, we introduce an extensive partition of the system into two subsystems both of which extend throughout the bulk in all directions. The resulting bulk entanglement spectrum has a low-lying part that resembles the excitation spectrum of a bulk Hamiltonian, which allows us to probe a topological phase transition from a single wave function by tuning either the geometry of the partition or the entanglement temperature. As an example, this remarkable correspondence between the topological phase transition and the entanglement criticality is rigorously established for integer quantum Hall states.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevlett.113.106801},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
number = 10,
volume = 113,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}

Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record

Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 42 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science

Figures / Tables:

FIG. 1 FIG. 1: (color online). Extensive partition of a topological state yields a topological phase transition in the bulk entanglement Hamiltonian H A of a subsystem. The horizontal and vertical sequences represent two ways of realizing the transition: the horizontal sequence denotes geometrically tuning the partition towards quantum criticality at themore » symmetric point (center); the vertical sequence comes from changing the entanglement temperature (T = 1 → T$\prime$) at an earlier stage of an asymmetric partition. Dotted arrows always indicate the tracing out procedure. The schematic bulk entanglement spectrum and topological invariant for A are shown below every stage of partition. C A = 1 denotes the topological order of the original topological ground state, and C A = 0 denotes topologically trivial order.« less

Save / Share:

Works referenced in this record:

Local unitary transformation, long-range quantum entanglement, wave function renormalization, and topological order
journal, October 2010


Topological insulators and superconductors
journal, October 2011


The birth of topological insulators
journal, March 2010


Momentum polarization: An entanglement measure of topological spin and chiral central charge
journal, November 2013


General Relationship between the Entanglement Spectrum and the Edge State Spectrum of Topological Quantum States
journal, May 2012


Quantized Hall Conductance in a Two-Dimensional Periodic Potential
journal, August 1982


Bipartite entanglement and entropic boundary law in lattice spin systems
journal, February 2005


Z2 Topological Order and the Quantum Spin Hall Effect
journal, September 2005


Colloquium: Topological insulators
journal, November 2010


Edge-state inner products and real-space entanglement spectrum of trial quantum Hall states
journal, December 2012


Topological Orders in Rigid States
journal, February 1990


Bulk-edge correspondence in entanglement spectra
journal, November 2011


Classification of topological insulators and superconductors in three spatial dimensions
journal, November 2008


Detecting Topological Order in a Ground State Wave Function
journal, March 2006


Ground state entanglement and geometric entropy in the Kitaev model
journal, March 2005


Boundary-Locality and Perturbative Structure of Entanglement Spectra in Gapped Systems
journal, May 2012


Topological Entanglement Entropy
journal, March 2006


Entanglement Gap and a New Principle of Adiabatic Continuity
journal, May 2010


Model for a Quantum Hall Effect without Landau Levels: Condensed-Matter Realization of the "Parity Anomaly"
journal, October 1988


Geometric proof of the equality between entanglement and edge spectra
journal, July 2012


Calculation of reduced density matrices from correlation functions
journal, March 2003


Entanglement Spectrum of Topological Insulators and Superconductors
journal, April 2010


Percolation, quantum tunnelling and the integer Hall effect
journal, May 1988


Entanglement spectrum of a topological phase in one dimension
journal, February 2010


Entanglement Entropy and Entanglement Spectrum of the Kitaev Model
journal, August 2010


Entanglement Spectra of Complex Paired Superfluids
journal, October 2011


Quasiparticle statistics and braiding from ground-state entanglement
journal, June 2012


Classification of topological insulators and superconductors in three spatial dimensions
text, January 2008


Boundary-locality and perturbative structure of entanglement spectra in gapped systems
text, January 2011


Quasi-particle Statistics and Braiding from Ground State Entanglement
text, January 2011


Works referencing / citing this record:

Learning phase transitions by confusion
journal, February 2017

  • van Nieuwenburg, Evert P. L.; Liu, Ye-Hua; Huber, Sebastian D.
  • Nature Physics, Vol. 13, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1038/nphys4037

Momentum-space entanglement after a quench in one-dimensional disordered fermionic systems
journal, December 2019


Entanglement spectrum of a random partition: Connection with the localization transition
journal, June 2015


Analytic expression for the entanglement entropy of a two-dimensional topological superconductor
journal, February 2017


Topological invariant for two-dimensional open systems
journal, May 2018


Entanglement polarization for the topological quadrupole phase
journal, July 2018


Decoding quantum criticality from fermionic/parafermionic topological states
journal, October 2018


Invariance of Topological Indices Under Hilbert Space Truncation
journal, January 2018


Information Perspective to Probabilistic Modeling: Boltzmann Machines versus Born Machines
journal, August 2018

  • Cheng, Song; Chen, Jing; Wang, Lei
  • Entropy, Vol. 20, Issue 8
  • DOI: 10.3390/e20080583

Learning phase transitions by confusion
text, January 2016


Invariance of topological indices under Hilbert space truncation
text, January 2017


Topological invariant for two-dimensional open systems
text, January 2017


Decoding quantum criticalities from fermionic/parafermionic topological states
text, January 2018


Reconstructing Entanglement Hamiltonian via Entanglement Eigenstates
text, January 2018


Figures / Tables found in this record:

    Figures/Tables have been extracted from DOE-funded journal article accepted manuscripts.