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Finite Size Scaling of Topological Entanglement Entropy

Statistical Mechanics 2017-02-08 v1

Abstract

We consider scaling of the entanglement entropy across a topological quantum phase transition in one dimension. The change of the topology manifests itself in a sub-leading term, which scales as L1/αL^{-1/\alpha} with the size of the subsystem LL, here α\alpha is the R\'{e}nyi index. This term reveals the universal scaling function hα(L/ξ)h_\alpha(L/\xi), where ξ\xi is the correlation length, which is sensitive to the topological index.

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@article{arxiv.1609.03998,
  title  = {Finite Size Scaling of Topological Entanglement Entropy},
  author = {Yuting Wang and Tobias Gulden and Alex Kamenev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.03998},
  year   = {2017}
}