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Entanglement entropy of higher rank topological phases

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2024-07-30 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study entanglement entropy of unusual ZN\mathbb{Z}_N topological stabilizer codes which admit fractional excitations with restricted mobility constraint in a manner akin to fracton topological phases. It is widely known that the sub-leading term of the entanglement entropy of a disk geometry in conventional topologically ordered phases is related to the total number of the quantum dimension of the fractional excitations. We show that, in our model, such a relation does not hold, i.e, the total number of the quantum dimension varies depending on the system size, whereas the sub-leading term of the entanglement entropy takes a constant number irrespective to the system size. We give a physical interpretation of this result in the simplest case of the model. More thorough analysis on the entanglement entropy of the model on generic lattices is also presented.

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@article{arxiv.2302.11468,
  title  = {Entanglement entropy of higher rank topological phases},
  author = {Hiromi Ebisu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.11468},
  year   = {2024}
}

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35 pages, 11 figures