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Entanglement entropy provides a powerful characterization of two-dimensional gapped topological phases of quantum matter, intimately tied to their description by topological quantum field theories (TQFTs). Fracton topological orders are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-03-08 Han Ma , A. T. Schmitz , S. A. Parameswaran , Michael Hermele , Rahul M. Nandkishore

Here we investigate the connection between topological order and the geometric entanglement, as measured by the logarithm of the overlap between a given state and its closest product state of blocks. We do this for a variety of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-10-28 Roman Orus , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Oliver Buerschaper , Maarten Van den Nest

The discovery of topological order has revolutionized the understanding of quantum matter in modern physics and provided the theoretical foundation for many quantum error correcting codes. Realizing topologically ordered states has proven…

Topologically ordered quantum matter exhibits intriguing long-range patterns of entanglement, which reveal themselves in subsystem entropies. However, measuring such entropies, which can be used to certify topological order, on large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Robert Ott , Torsten V. Zache , Nishad Maskara , Mikhail D. Lukin , Peter Zoller , Hannes Pichler

We study the structure of topological phases and their boundaries in the Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) formalism. We show how topological order in a system can be identified from the structure of the PEPS transfer operator, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-09-10 Norbert Schuch , Didier Poilblanc , J. Ignacio Cirac , David Perez-Garcia

Topological order in a 2d quantum matter can be determined by the topological contribution to the entanglement R\'enyi entropies. However, when close to a quantum phase transition, its calculation becomes cumbersome. Here we show how…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-12-24 Roman Orus , Tzu-Chieh Wei , Oliver Buerschaper , Artur Garcia-Saez

These notes review a description of quantum mechanics in terms of the topology of spaces, basing on the axioms of Topological Quantum Field Theory and path integral formalism. In this description quantum states and operators are encoded by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Dmitry Melnikov

This paper gives a criterion for detecting the entanglement of a quantum state, and uses it to study the relationship between topological and quantum entanglement. It is fundamental to view topological entanglements such as braids as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Louis H. Kauffman , Samuel J. Lomonaco

Topological phases are unique states of matter incorporating long-range quantum entanglement, hosting exotic excitations with fractional quantum statistics. We report a practical method to identify topological phases in arbitrary realistic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-12-04 Hong-Chen Jiang , Zhenghan Wang , Leon Balents

We investigate the topological properties of the bond order wave phase arising in the extended Fermi-Hubbard model. In particular, we uncover a topological sector, which remained elusive in previous finite-size numerical studies due to…

Tensor network states, and in particular projected entangled pair states, play an important role in the description of strongly correlated quantum lattice systems. They do not only serve as variational states in numerical simulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-27 C. Wille , O. Buerschaper , J. Eisert

In this paper we study the effect of non-trivial spatial topology on quantum entanglement by examining the degenerate ground states of a topologically ordered system on torus. Using the string-net (fixed-point) wave-function, we propose a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-17 Zhu-Xi Luo , Yu-Ting Hu , Yong-Shi Wu

Topological phases exhibit unconventional order that cannot be detected by any local order parameter. In the framework of Projected Entangled Pair States(PEPS), topological order is characterized by an entanglement symmetry of the local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-10-13 Wen-Tao Xu , Norbert Schuch

We analyze the computational aspects of detecting topological order in a quantum many-body system. We contrast the widely used topological entanglement entropy with a recently introduced operational definition for topological order based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-09 Louis Fraatz , Amit Jamadagni , Hendrik Weimer

The unrivaled robustness of topologically ordered states of matter against perturbations has immediate applications in quantum computing and quantum metrology, yet their very existence poses a challenge to our understanding of phase…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-27 Amit Jamadagni , Hendrik Weimer

Topological properties of quantum systems are one of the most intriguing emerging phenomena in condensed matter physics. A crucial property of topological systems is the symmetry-protected robustness towards local noise. Experiments have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 Guliuxin Jin , Eliska Greplova

Systems displaying quantum topological order feature robust characteristics that are very attractive to quantum computing schemes. Topological quantum field theories have proven to be powerful in capturing the quintessential attributes of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-15 P. Vojta , G. Ortiz , Z. Nussinov

This thesis is divided into two mainly independent parts: In the first part, we derive a criterion to determine when a translationally invariant Matrix Product State (MPS) has long range localizable entanglement, which indicates that the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-09-22 Thorsten B. Wahl

Higher-order topological insulators have attracted significant interest in recent years. However, identifying a universal topological invariant capable of characterizing higher-order topology remains challenging. Here, we propose a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yu-Long Zhang , Cheng-Ming Miao , Qing-Feng Sun , Jian-Jun Liu , Ying-Tao Zhang

We demonstrate that multipartite entanglement is able to characterize one-dimensional symmetry-protected topological order, which is witnessed by the scaling behavior of the quantum Fisher information of the ground state with respect to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 Yu-Ran Zhang , Yu Zeng , Heng Fan , J. Q. You , Franco Nori