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Detecting Topological Order at Finite Temperature Using Entanglement Negativity

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2020-09-16 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose a diagnostic for finite temperature topological order using `topological entanglement negativity', the long-range component of a mixed-state entanglement measure. As a demonstration, we study the toric code model in dd spatial dimension for dd=2,3,4, and find that when topological order survives thermal fluctuations, it possesses a non-zero topological entanglement negativity, whose value is equal to the topological entanglement entropy at zero temperature. Furthermore, we show that the Gibbs state of 2D and 3D toric code at any non-zero temperature, and that of 4D toric code above a certain critical temperature, can be expressed as a convex combination of short-range entangled pure states, consistent with the absence of topological order.

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@article{arxiv.1912.04293,
  title  = {Detecting Topological Order at Finite Temperature Using Entanglement Negativity},
  author = {Tsung-Cheng Lu and Timothy H. Hsieh and Tarun Grover},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.04293},
  year   = {2020}
}

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21 pages, 6 figures

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