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A Classical Model Correspondence for G-symmetric Random Tensor Networks

Quantum Physics 2021-02-24 v2

Abstract

We consider the scaling of entanglement entropy in random Projected Entangled Pairs States (PEPS) with an internal symmetry given by a finite group G. We systematically demonstrate a correspondence between this entanglement entropy and the difference of free energies of a classical Ising model with an addition non-local term. This non-local term counts the number of domain walls in a particular configuration of the classical spin model. We argue that for that overwhelming majority of such states, this gives rise to an area law scaling with well-defined topological entanglement entropy. The topological entanglement entropy is shown to be log|G| for a simply connected region A and which manifests as a difference in the number of domain walls of ground state energies for the two spin models.

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@article{arxiv.1907.05490,
  title  = {A Classical Model Correspondence for G-symmetric Random Tensor Networks},
  author = {Erica Morgan and Fernando G. S. L. Brandão},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.05490},
  year   = {2021}
}
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