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Extracting topological spins from bulk multipartite entanglement

Quantum Physics 2025-07-25 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We address the problem of identifying a 2+1d topologically ordered phase using measurements on the ground-state wavefunction. For non-chiral topological order, we describe a series of bulk multipartite entanglement measures that extract the invariants ada2θar\sum_a d_a^2 \theta_a^r for any r2r \geq 2, where dad_a and θa\theta_a are the quantum dimension and topological spin of an anyon aa, respectively. These invariants are obtained as expectation values of permutation operators between 2r2r replicas of the wavefunction, applying different permutations on four distinct regions of the plane. Our proposed measures provide a refined tool for distinguishing topological phases, capturing information beyond conventional entanglement measures such as the topological entanglement entropy. We argue that any operator capable of extracting the above invariants must act on at least 2r2r replicas, making our procedure optimal in terms of the required number of replicas. We discuss the generalization of our results to chiral states.

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@article{arxiv.2502.12259,
  title  = {Extracting topological spins from bulk multipartite entanglement},
  author = {Yarden Sheffer and Ady Stern and Erez Berg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.12259},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Accepted to PRL, 6+7 pages, 6 figures, comments welcome

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