Topological Entanglement Rényi Entropy and Reduced Density Matrix Structure

Steven T. Flammia, Alioscia Hamma, Taylor L. Hughes, and Xiao-Gang Wen
Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 261601 – Published 28 December 2009

Abstract

We generalize the topological entanglement entropy to a family of topological Rényi entropies parametrized by a parameter α, in an attempt to find new invariants for distinguishing topologically ordered phases. We show that, surprisingly, all topological Rényi entropies are the same, independent of α for all nonchiral topological phases. This independence shows that topologically ordered ground-state wave functions have reduced density matrices with a certain simple structure, and no additional universal information can be extracted from the entanglement spectrum.

  • Received 17 September 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.261601

©2009 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Steven T. Flammia1, Alioscia Hamma1, Taylor L. Hughes2,3, and Xiao-Gang Wen4,1

  • 1Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5 Canada
  • 2Department of Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  • 3Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61802, USA
  • 4Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA

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Vol. 103, Iss. 26 — 31 December 2009

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