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A fundamental result in modern quantum chaos theory is the Maldacena-Shenker-Stanford upper bound on the growth of out-of-time-order correlators, whose infinite-temperature limit is related to the operator-space entanglement entropy of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-20 Zongping Gong , Lorenzo Piroli , J. Ignacio Cirac

In the framework of the trap-size scaling theory, we study the scaling properties of the Bose-Hubbard model in two dimensions in the presence of a trapping potential at finite temperature. In particular, we provide results for the particle…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-06-06 Giacomo Ceccarelli , Christian Torrero

The second law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of an isolated system can only increase over time. This appears to conflict with the reversible evolution of isolated quantum systems under the Schr\"odinger equation, which preserves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-16 Florian Meier , Tom Rivlin , Tiago Debarba , Jake Xuereb , Marcus Huber , Maximilian P. E. Lock

We propose a novel parameter, the anyonic topological entropy, designed to detect the error correcting phase of a topological memory. Unlike similar quantities such as the topological entropy, the anyonic topological entropy is defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 James R. Wootton

We study the scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy of two dimensional conformal quantum critical systems, i.e. systems with scale invariant wave functions. They include two-dimensional generalized quantum dimer models on bipartite…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-03-28 Benjamin Hsu , Michael Mulligan , Eduardo Fradkin , Eun-Ah Kim

A scalar field in the ground state, when partially hidden from observation by a spherical boundary, acquires entanglement entropy $S$ proportional to the area of the surface. This area law is well established in flat space, where it follows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-01 Katja Ried

An axiomatic foundation regarding the entropy for complex systems is established. Missing from decades of research was the requirement that entropy must measure the uncertainty at the informational scale of the maximizing distribution,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-29 Kenric P. Nelson

We study the entanglement structure of Abelian topological order described by $p$-form BF theory in arbitrary dimensions. We do so directly in the low-energy topological quantum field theory by considering the algebra of topological surface…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-17 Jackson R. Fliss , Stathis Vitouladitis

Many theoretical expressions of dissipation along non-equilibrium processes have been proposed. However, they have not been fully verified by experiments. Especially for systems strongly interacting with environments the connection between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-03 Ketan Goyal , Xian He , Ryoichi Kawai

We study the entanglement entropy between (possibly distinct) topological phases across an interface using an Abelian Chern-Simons description with topological boundary conditions (TBCs) at the interface. From a microscopic point of view,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-11-09 Jackson R. Fliss , Xueda Wen , Onkar Parrikar , Chang-Tse Hsieh , Bo Han , Taylor L. Hughes , Robert G. Leigh

We study the scaling of ground state entanglement entropy of various free fermionic models on one dimensional lattices, where the hopping and pairing terms decay as a power law. We seek to understand the scaling of entanglement entropy in…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-27 Debarghya Chakraborty , Nikolaos Angelinos

A physical system is said to satisfy a thermal area law if the mutual information between two adjacent regions in the Gibbs state is controlled by the area of their boundary. Thermal area laws have been derived for systems with bounded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Marius Lemm , Oliver Siebert

We provide a quantum protocol to perform topological data analysis (TDA) via the distillation of quantum thermal states. Recent developments of quantum thermal state preparation algorithms reveal their characteristic scaling defined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Stefano Scali , Chukwudubem Umeano , Oleksandr Kyriienko

We explore the relationship between a machine-learned structural quantity (softness) and excess entropy in simulations of supercooled liquids. Excess entropy is known to scale well the dynamical properties of liquids, but this…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-07 Ian R. Graham , Paulo E. Arratia , Robert A. Riggleman

We introduce and validate a finite-size two-body excess entropy integral equation. By using analytical arguments and computer simulations of prototypical simple liquids, we show that the excess entropy $s_2$ exhibits a finite-size scaling…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-06-07 Mauricio Sevilla , Atreyee Banerjee , Robinson Cortes-Huerto

Numerical estimates of the Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy based on a finite amount of data decay towards zero in the relevant limits. Rewriting differences of block entropies as averages over decay rates, and ignoring all parts of the sample…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Holger Kantz , Thomas Schürmann

We study the finite temperature nature of a quantum phase transition between an Abelian and a non-Abelian topological phase in an exactly solvable model of a chiral spin liquid. By virtue of the exact solvability, this model can serve as a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-02-23 Suk Bum Chung , Hong Yao , Taylor L. Hughes , Eun-Ah Kim

We study the entanglement entropy in lattice field theory using a simulation algorithm based on Jarzynski's theorem. We focus on the entropic c-function for the Ising model in two and in three dimensions: after validating our algorithm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Andrea Bulgarelli , Marco Panero

We study the behaviour of linear and nonlinear spectroscopic quantities in two-dimensional topologically ordered systems, which host anyonic excitations exhibiting fractional statistics. We highlight the role that braiding phases between…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-12 Max McGinley , Michele Fava , S. A. Parameswaran

Topological entanglement entropy (TEE) is an efficient way to detect topological order in the ground state of gapped Hamiltonians. The seminal work of Kitaev and Preskill~\cite{preskill-kitaev-tee} and simultaneously by Levin and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Joydeep Naskar , Sai Satyam Samal