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.
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
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- 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
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- 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
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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
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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.},
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year = {Thu Sep 04 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
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