Entanglement spectrum and entanglement Hamiltonian of a Chern insulator with open boundaries

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2014/10/P10030zbMATH Open1456.81070arXiv1406.7214WikidataQ62049593 ScholiaQ62049593MaRDI QIDQ3301766FDOQ3301766

Authors: Maria Hermanns, Yann Salimi, Masudul Haque, Lars Fritz 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the entanglement spectrum of a Chern insulator on a cylinder geometry, with the cut separating the two partitions taken parallel to the cylinder edge, at varying distances from the edge. In contrast to similar studies on a torus, there is only one cut, and hence only one virtual edge mode in the entanglement spectrum. The entanglement spectrum has a gap when the cut is close enough to the physical edge of the cylinder such that the edge mode spatially extends over the cut. This effect is suppressed for parameter choices where the edge mode is sharply localized at the edge. In the extreme case of a perfectly localized edge mode, the entanglement spectrum is gapless even if the smaller partition consists of a single edge row. For the single-row cut, we construct the corresponding entanglement Hamiltonian, which is a one-dimensional tight-binding Hamiltonian with complex long-range hopping and interesting properties. We also study and explain the effect of two different schemes of flux insertion through a ring described by such an entanglement Hamiltonian.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7214

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

Cites Work

• Calculation of reduced density matrices from correlation functions

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