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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

The one dimensional closed interacting Kitaev chain and the dimerized version are studied. The topological invariants in terms of Green's function are calculated by the density matrix renormalization group method and the exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-03 Zhidan Li , Qiang Han

The one-dimensional $p$-wave superconductor proposed by Kitaev has long been a classic example for understanding topological phase transitions through various methods, such as examining Berry phase, edge states of open chains and, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Yuan-Hong Tsai , Meng-Zhe Yu , Yu-Hao Hsu , Ming-Chiang Chung

Topological characteristics of quantum systems are typically determined by the closing of a gap, while the dynamical quantum phase transition (DQPT) during quantum real-time evolution has emerged as a nonequilibrium analog to the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-26 Y. B. Shi , X. Z. Zhang , Z. Song

We study the ground-state entanglement of gapped domain walls between topologically ordered systems in two spatial dimensions. We derive a universal correction to the ground-state entanglement entropy, which is equal to the logarithm of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-01 Bowen Shi , Isaac H. Kim

We propose an order parameter for a general one-dimensional gapped system with an open boundary condition. The order parameter can be computed from the ground state entanglement entropy of some regions near one of the boundaries. Hence, it…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-21 Isaac H. Kim

The entanglement entropy of the incompressible states of a realistic quantum Hall system in the second Landau level are studied by direct diagonalization. The subdominant term to the area law, the topological entanglement entropy, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 B. A. Friedman , G. C. Levine

A charged entanglement entropy is a new measure which probes quantum entanglement between different charge sectors. We study symmetry protected topological (SPT) phases in 2+1 dimensional space-time by using this charged entanglement…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-05-11 Shunji Matsuura , Xueda Wen , Ling-Yan Hung , Shinsei Ryu

We study the quench dynamics of entanglement spectra in the Kitaev chain with variable-range pairing quantified by power-law decay rate $\alpha$. Considering the post-quench Hamiltonians with flat bands, we demonstrate that the presence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-23 Kaixiang Su , Zheng-Hang Sun , Heng Fan

We study the combined effects of disorder and range of the couplings on the phase diagram of one-dimensional topological superconductors. We consider an extended version of the Kitaev chain where hopping and pairing terms couple many sites.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-04-28 Gianluca Francica , Edoardo Maria Tiburzi , Luca Dell'Anna

Competition among repetitive measurements of noncommuting observables and unitary dynamics can give rise to a wide variety of entanglement phases. Here, we propose a general framework based on Lyapunov analysis to characterize topological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Hisanori Oshima , Ken Mochizuki , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Yohei Fuji

We introduce a density matrix-based network analysis to explore the ground state of the Kitaev chain, uncovering previously hidden structural and entanglement features. This approach successfully identifies the critical point associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Guillem Llodrà , Roberta Zambrini , Gian Luca Giorgi

We investigate the von Neumann entanglement entropy and Schmidt gap in the ground state of the Kitaev model on the honeycomb lattice for square and cylindrical subsystems. We find that, for both the subsystems, the free-fermionic…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-26 Saptarshi Mandal , Moitri Maiti , Vipin Kerala Varma

Dissipation generally leads to the decoherence of a quantum state. In contrast, numerous recent proposals have illustrated that dissipation can also be tailored to stabilize many-body entangled quantum states. While the focus of these works…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Mathias Van Regemortel , Ze-Pei Cian , Alireza Seif , Hossein Dehghani , Mohammad Hafezi

We extend our studies of holographic entropy inequalities to gapped phases of matter. For any number of regions, we determine the linear entropy inequalities satisfied by systems in which the entanglement entropy satisfies an exact area…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-02 Ning Bao , ChunJun Cao , Michael Walter , Zitao Wang

The entanglement entropy of the incompressible states of a realistic quantum Hall system are studied by direct diagonalization. The subdominant term to the area law, the topological entanglement entropy, which is believed to carry…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 B. A. Friedman , G. C. Levine

In this paper, we obtain an exact formula for the entanglement entropy of the ground state and all excited states of the Kitaev model. Remarkably, the entanglement entropy can be expressed in a simple separable form S=S_G+S_F, with S_F the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-14 Hong Yao , Xiao-Liang Qi

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

We study the ground-state phase diagram and dynamics of the one-dimensional cluster model with several competing interactions. Paying particular attention to the relation between the entanglement spectrum (ES) and the bulk topological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-27 Takumi Ohta , Shu Tanaka , Ippei Danshita , Keisuke Totsuka

We study the entanglement properties of the ground state in Kitaev's model. This is a two-dimensional spin system with a torus topology and nontrivial four-body interactions between its spins. For a generic partition $(A,B)$ of the lattice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Hamma , R. Ionicioiu , P. Zanardi