2020
DOI: 10.1103/physrevresearch.2.032005
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Toy model of boundary states with spurious topological entanglement entropy

Abstract: Topological entanglement entropy has been extensively used as an indicator of topologically ordered phases. We study the conditions needed for two-dimensional topologically trivial states to exhibit spurious contributions that contaminate topological entanglement entropy. We show that, if the state at the boundary of a subregion is a stabilizer state, then it has a nonzero spurious contribution to the region if and only if the state is in a nontrivial one-dimensional G 1 × G 2 symmetry-protected-topological (S… Show more

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“…In a majority of known cases (see Ref. [55] for a possible counterexample), this is due to the presence of lower-dimensional SPT order around the boundary of the bipartition, which can in turn be related to the presence of SSPT order [18]. In fact, it was shown in Ref.…”
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confidence: 96%
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“…In a majority of known cases (see Ref. [55] for a possible counterexample), this is due to the presence of lower-dimensional SPT order around the boundary of the bipartition, which can in turn be related to the presence of SSPT order [18]. In fact, it was shown in Ref.…”
Section: Summary Of Resultsmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…The TEE refers to a constant correction to the area law when computing bipartite entanglement entropy, and is a topological invariant, in the sense that it takes a uniform value within a given topological phase of matter [49,50]. Recently, it has been understood that there are certain quantum states for which the TEE, for certain bipartitions, does not match the expected value [18,20,22,[51][52][53][54][55]. In a majority of known cases (see Ref.…”
Section: Summary Of Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Conversely, a boundary that gives rise to topological excitations must give a positive reading for these diagnostics. However, due to spurious contributions [51][52][53][54][55], the generic arguments cannot guarantee that the diagnostics do not give false positives and, moreover, the work gives no interpretation for the magnitude of a positive reading. In our work, we restrict to loop-gas models.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…For example, the boundary of A 1 ∪ A 0 1 contributes the same nonuniversal terms to S ðnÞ 11 0 and S ðnÞ 11 0 ∪ 33 0 , and these terms have been canceled in I ðnÞ ð11 0 ,33 0 Þ. We note that the locality assumption about nonuniversal terms does not hold in certain systems with the so-called suprious long-range entanglement [39][40][41][42][43][44][45] , which will not be considered in this work. As one test of the universality of I (n) , one can manually add a local bunch of coupled qubits to the state |ψ at an arbitrary location, and observe that the final result of I (n) has no dependence on the state of these qubits.…”
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confidence: 97%