Abstract
We generalize the topological entanglement entropy to a family of topological Rényi entropies parametrized by a parameter , 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 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
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