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Visualizing Quasiparticles from Quantum Entanglement for general 1D phases

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2021-03-17 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

In this work, we present a quantum information framework for the entanglement behavior of the low energy quasiparticle (QP) excitations in various quantum phases in one-dimensional (1D) systems. We first establish an exact correspondence between the correlation matrix and the QP entanglement Hamiltonian for free fermions and find an extended in-gap state in the QP entanglement Hamiltonian as a consequence of the position uncertainty of the QP. A more general understanding of such an in-gap state can be extended to a Kramers theorem for the QP entanglement Hamiltonian, which also applies to strongly interacting systems. Further, we present a set of ubiquitous entanglement spectrum features, dubbed entanglement fragmentation, conditional mutual information, and measurement induced non-local entanglement for QPs in 1D symmetry protected topological phases. Our result thus provides a new framework to identify different phases of matter in terms of their QP entanglement.

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@article{arxiv.2010.15137,
  title  = {Visualizing Quasiparticles from Quantum Entanglement for general 1D phases},
  author = {Elisabeth Wybo and Frank Pollmann and S. L. Sondhi and Yizhi You},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.15137},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

13 pages, 13 figures

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