Session L29: Quantum Entanglement
2:30 PM–5:30 PM, Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Room: C148
Sponsoring Unit:
GQI
Chair: Lana Sheridan, National University of Singapore
Abstract ID: BAPS.2011.MAR.L29.8
Abstract: L29.00008 : General relation between energy spectrum and entanglement spectrum
3:54 PM–4:06 PM
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Authors:
Xiaoliang Qi
(Stanford University)
Hosho Katsura
(Gakushuin Univeristy, Tokyo, Japan)
Andreas Ludwig
(University of California, Santa Barbara)
We demonstrate that the bipartite density matrix, arising from a spatial bipartitioning of a gapped topological state which possesses gapless edge modes in the form of a conformal field theory (CFT ) (when terminated against a topologically trivial state/vacuum), such as e.g. a general quantum Hall state, is the density matrix of a the chiral edge state CFT at a finite temperature. We obtain this result by applying a physical instantaneous cut of the gapped system, and by viewing the cutting process as a sudden ``quantum quench'' into a CFT, using the tools of boundary conformal field theory. In particular, we obtain a general relation between the Hamiltonian spectrum of gapless theories and the entanglement spectrum of the gapped theory obtained from coupling two gapless theories.
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