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Seeing topological entanglement through the information convex

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-10-30 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

The information convex allows us to look into certain information-theoretic constraints in two-dimensional topological orders. We provide a derivation of the topological contribution lnda\ln d_a to the von Neumann entropy, where dad_a is the quantum dimension of anyon aa. This value emerges as the only value consistent with strong subadditivity, assuming a certain topological dependence of the information convex structure. In particular, it is assumed that the fusion multiplicities are coherently encoded in a 2-hole disk. A similar contribution (lndα\ln d_{\alpha}) is derived for gapped boundaries. This method further allows us to identify the fusion probabilities and certain constraints on the fusion theory. We also derive a linear bound on the circuit depth of unitary non-Abelian string operators and discuss how it generalizes and changes in the presence of a gapped boundary.

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@article{arxiv.1810.01986,
  title  = {Seeing topological entanglement through the information convex},
  author = {Bowen Shi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.01986},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

20 pages, 15 figures, close to the published version

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