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We introduce a many-body topological invariant, called the topological disorder parameter (TDP), to characterize gapped quantum phases with global internal symmetry in (2+1)d. TDP is defined as the constant correction that appears in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-09-15 Bin-Bin Chen , Hong-Hao Tu , Zi Yang Meng , Meng Cheng

Quantum entanglement can be an effective diagnostic tool for probing topological phases protected by global symmetries. Recently, the notion of nontrivial topology in critical systems has been proposed and is attracting growing attention.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-19 Wen-Hao Zhong , Hai-Qing Lin , Xue-Jia Yu

We witness multipartite entanglement in the Kitaev chain -- a benchmark model of one dimensional topological insulator -- also with variable-range pairing, using the quantum Fisher information. Phases having a finite winding number, both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Luca Pezzè , Marco Gabbrielli , Luca Lepori , Augusto Smerzi

We investigate the diagonal entropy(DE) of the ground state for quantum many-body systems, including the XY model and the Ising model with next nearest neighbour interactions. We focus on the DE of a subsystem of L continuous spins. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Zhengan Wang , Zheng-Hang Sun , Yu Zeng , Haifeng Lang , Qiantan Hong , Jian Cui , Heng Fan

Entanglement is a key quantum phenomena and understanding transitions between phases of matter with different entanglement properties are an interesting probe of quantum mechanics. We numerically study a model of a 2D tensor network…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-06 Ryan Levy , Bryan K. Clark

We study topological properties of phase transition points of one-dimensional topological quantum phase transitions by assigning winding numbers defined on closed circles around the gap closing points in the parameter space of momentum and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-10-22 Linhu Li , Chao Yang , Shu Chen

We investigate localization and topological properties of a dimerized Kitaev chain with p-wave superconducting correlations and a quasiperiodically modulated chemical potential. With regard to the localization studies, we demonstrate the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-01-25 Shilpi Roy , Sk Noor Nabi , Saurabh Basu

The Kitaev surface-code model is the most studied example of a topologically ordered phase and typically involves four-spin interactions on a two-dimensional surface. A universal signature of this phase is topological entanglement entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 Tommaso F. Demarie , Trond Linjordet , Nicolas C. Menicucci , Gavin K. Brennen

We study a periodically driven one dimensional Kitaev model in the presence of disorder. In the clean limit our model exhibits four topological phases corresponding to the existence or non-existence of edge modes at zero and pi quasienergy.…

We introduce a characterization of topological order based on bulk oscillations of the entanglement entropy and the definition of an `entanglement gap', showing that it is generally applicable to pure and disordered quantum systems. Using…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-01 Chunyu Tan , Hubert Saleur , Stephan Haas

Entropy is useful in statistical problems as a measure of irreversibility, randomness, mixing, dispersion, and number of microstates. However, there remains ambiguity over the precise mathematical formulation of entropy, generalized beyond…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-21 Vladimir Zhdankin

We theoretically investigate and experimentally demonstrate the existence of topological edge states in a mechanical analog of the Kitaev chain with a non-zero chemical potential. Our system is a one-dimensional monomer system involving two…

We consider scaling of the entanglement entropy across a topological quantum phase transition in one dimension. The change of the topology manifests itself in a sub-leading term, which scales as $L^{-1/\alpha}$ with the size of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-08 Yuting Wang , Tobias Gulden , Alex Kamenev

A useful approach to characterize and identify quantum phase transitions lies in the concept of multipartite entanglement. In this paper, we consider well-known measures of multipartite (global) entanglement, i.e., average linear entropy of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Elahe Samimi , Mohammad Hossein Zarei , Afshin Montakhab

We consider the Kitaev chain model with finite and infinite range in the hopping and pairing parameters, looking in particular at the appearance of Majorana zero energy modes and massive edge modes. We study the system both in the presence…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-06-01 Antonio Alecce , Luca Dell'Anna

Quantum phase transitions occur at zero temperature and involve the appearance of long-range correlations. These correlations are not due to thermal fluctuations but to the intricate structure of a strongly entangled ground state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Vidal , J. I. Latorre , E. Rico , A. Kitaev

We discuss entanglement entropy of gapped ground states in different dimensions, obtained on partitioning space into two regions. For trivial phases without topological order, we argue that the entanglement entropy may be obtained by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-12-12 Tarun Grover , Ari M. Turner , Ashvin Vishwanath

We explore the gapless topological phases of a $p$-wave superconductor, probing its rich topologically ordered phases and underlying quantum phenomena. The topological order of the system is characterized by studying its entanglement…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-30 S. Srinidhi , Shashi C. L. Srivastava , Jayendra N. Bandyopadhyay

Very few topological systems with long-range couplings have been considered so far due to our lack of analytic approaches. Here we extend the Kitaev chain, a 1D quantum liquid, to infinite-range couplings and study its topological…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-26 Kristian Patrick , Titus Neupert , Jiannis K. Pachos

Quantum circuits provide an emerging controllable platform to realize novel dynamical non-equilibrium phases including topologically ordered states. The Kitaev model has become a cornerstone of quantum magnetism due to its quantum spin…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-26 Tushya Kalpada , Aayush Vijayvargia , Ezra Day-Roberts , Onur Erten