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Title: Entanglement properties of Floquet-Chern insulators

Abstract

Results are presented for the entanglement entropy and spectrum of half-filled graphene following the switch on of a circularly polarized laser. The laser parameters are chosen to correspond to several different Floquet-Chern insulator phases. The entanglement properties of the unitarily evolved wave functions are compared with the state where one of the Floquet bands is completely occupied. The true states show a volume law for the entanglement, whereas the Floquet states show an area law. Qualitative differences are found in the entanglement properties of the off-resonant and on-resonant laser. Edge states are found in the entanglement spectrum corresponding to certain physical edge states expected in a Chern insulator. However, some edge states that would be expected from the Floquet band structure are missing from the entanglement spectrum. An analytic theory is developed for the long-time structure of the entanglement spectrum. Finally, it is argued that only edge states corresponding to off-resonant processes appear in the entanglement spectrum.

Authors:
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  1. New York Univ. (NYU), NY (United States)
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Research Org.:
New York Univ. (NYU), NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
OSTI Identifier:
1535801
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1332387
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0010821
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 94; Journal Issue: 20; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; materials science; physics; conformation & topology; light-matter interaction; quantum entanglement; graphene; topological insulators

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Yates, Daniel J., Lemonik, Yonah, and Mitra, Aditi. Entanglement properties of Floquet-Chern insulators. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.94.205422.
Yates, Daniel J., Lemonik, Yonah, & Mitra, Aditi. Entanglement properties of Floquet-Chern insulators. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.94.205422
Yates, Daniel J., Lemonik, Yonah, and Mitra, Aditi. Wed . "Entanglement properties of Floquet-Chern insulators". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.94.205422. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1535801.
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title = {Entanglement properties of Floquet-Chern insulators},
author = {Yates, Daniel J. and Lemonik, Yonah and Mitra, Aditi},
abstractNote = {Results are presented for the entanglement entropy and spectrum of half-filled graphene following the switch on of a circularly polarized laser. The laser parameters are chosen to correspond to several different Floquet-Chern insulator phases. The entanglement properties of the unitarily evolved wave functions are compared with the state where one of the Floquet bands is completely occupied. The true states show a volume law for the entanglement, whereas the Floquet states show an area law. Qualitative differences are found in the entanglement properties of the off-resonant and on-resonant laser. Edge states are found in the entanglement spectrum corresponding to certain physical edge states expected in a Chern insulator. However, some edge states that would be expected from the Floquet band structure are missing from the entanglement spectrum. An analytic theory is developed for the long-time structure of the entanglement spectrum. Finally, it is argued that only edge states corresponding to off-resonant processes appear in the entanglement spectrum.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.94.205422},
journal = {Physical Review B},
number = 20,
volume = 94,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Nov 16 00:00:00 EST 2016},
month = {Wed Nov 16 00:00:00 EST 2016}
}

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