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Phase Space Entanglement Spectrum

Mathematical Physics 2018-08-01 v1 Statistical Mechanics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We generalize the position- and momentum-space entanglement cuts to a family of cuts corresponding to regions in the classical phase space. We explicitly compute the entanglement spectra of free fermionic many-body wavefunctions for a family of phase space entanglement cuts that continuously interpolates between position- and momentum-space cuts. For inversion symmetric wavefunctions, the phase space entanglement spectrum possess a chiral symmetry, to which a topological index can be associated.

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@article{arxiv.1802.09531,
  title  = {Phase Space Entanglement Spectrum},
  author = {Vatsal Dwivedi and Victor Chua},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.09531},
  year   = {2018}
}

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25 pages, 7 figures

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