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Entropic uncertainty relations and topological-band insulator transitions in 2D gapped Dirac materials

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-04-13 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Uncertainty relations are studied for a characterization of topological-band insulator transitions in 2D gapped Dirac materials isostructural with graphene. We show that the relative or Kullback-Leibler entropy in position and momentum spaces, and the standard variance-based uncertainty relation, give sharp signatures of topological phase transitions in these systems.

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@article{arxiv.1502.07479,
  title  = {Entropic uncertainty relations and topological-band insulator transitions in 2D gapped Dirac materials},
  author = {Elvira Romera and Manuel Calixto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.07479},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages, 5 figures. To appear in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter