Entanglement of edge modes in (very) strongly correlated topological insulators

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.13598v2
• Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 06:18:28 GMT
• Title: Entanglement of edge modes in (very) strongly correlated topological insulators
• Authors: Nisa Ara, Rudranil Basu, Emil Mathew, and Indrakshi Raychowdhury
• Abstract summary: Quantum information theory is capable of identifying topological phases for a theory that exhibits quantum phase transition. We study entanglement entropy for a bi-layer SSH model, both in the presence and absence of Hubbard interaction. A remnant entropy survives in the non-trivial topological phase which is exactly due to the entanglement of the edge modes.
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• Abstract: Identifying topological phases for a strongly correlated theory remains a non-trivial task, as defining order parameters, such as Berry phases, is not straightforward. Quantum information theory is capable of identifying topological phases for a theory that exhibits quantum phase transition with a suitable definition of order parameters that are related to different entanglement measures for the system. In this work, we study entanglement entropy for a bi-layer SSH model, both in the presence and absence of Hubbard interaction and at varying interaction strengths. For the free theory, edge entanglement acts as an order parameter, which is supported by analytic calculations and numerical (DMRG) studies. We calculate the symmetry-resolved entanglement and demonstrate the equipartition of entanglement for this model which itself acts as an order parameter when calculated for the edge modes. As the DMRG calculation allows one to go beyond the free theory, we study the entanglement structure of the edge modes in the presence of on-site Hubbard interaction for the same model. A sudden reduction of edge entanglement is obtained as interaction is switched on. The explanation for this lies in the change in the size of the degenerate subspaces in the presence and absence of interaction. We also study the signature of entanglement when the interaction strength becomes extremely strong and demonstrate that the edge entanglement remains protected. In this limit, the energy eigenstates essentially become a tensor product state, implying zero entanglement. However, a remnant entropy survives in the non-trivial topological phase which is exactly due to the entanglement of the edge modes.

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