Entanglement Signature of Hinge Arcs, Fermi Arcs, and Crystalline Symmetry Protection in Higher-Order Weyl Semimetals

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.01654v1
• Date: Tue, 3 May 2022 17:36:49 GMT
• Title: Entanglement Signature of Hinge Arcs, Fermi Arcs, and Crystalline Symmetry Protection in Higher-Order Weyl Semimetals
• Authors: Yao Zhou, Peng Ye
• Abstract summary: We investigate the recently proposed higher-order Weyl semimetals (HOWSM), where bulk supports gapless higher-order Weyl nodes and boundary supports hinge arcs and Fermi arcs. Our work sheds light on general theory of entanglement signature in gapless topological phases of matter.
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• Abstract: The existence of $1/2$ modes in the entanglement spectrum (ES) has been shown to be a powerful quantum-informative signature of boundary states of gapped topological phases of matter, e.g., topological insulators and topological superconductors, where the finite bulk gap allows us to establish a crystal-clear correspondence between $1/2$ modes and boundary states. Here we investigate the recently proposed higher-order Weyl semimetals (HOWSM), where bulk supports gapless higher-order Weyl nodes and boundary supports hinge arcs and Fermi arcs. We find that the aim of unambiguously identifying higher-order boundary states ultimately drives us to make full use of eigen quantities of the entanglement Hamiltonian: ES as well as Schmidt vectors (entanglement wavefunctions, abbr. EWF). We demonstrate that, while both hinge arcs and Fermi arcs contribute to $1/2$ modes, the EWFs corresponding to hinge arcs and Fermi arcs are respectively localized on the virtual hinges and surfaces of the partition. Besides, by means of various symmetry-breaking partitions, we can identify the minimal crystalline symmetries that protect boundary states. Therefore, for gapless topological phases such as HOWSMs, we can combine ES and EWF to universally identify boundary states and potential symmetry requirement. While HOWSMs are prototypical examples of gapless phases, our work sheds light on general theory of entanglement signature in gapless topological phases of matter.

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