Inverse participation ratio and entanglement of edge states in HgTe quantum wells in a finite strip geometry

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12469v1
• Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2024 10:46:19 GMT
• Title: Inverse participation ratio and entanglement of edge states in HgTe quantum wells in a finite strip geometry
• Authors: Manuel Calixto, Octavio Castaños,
• Abstract summary: Information on the edge states energies and wavefunctions is extracted from analytic and numerical Hamiltonian diagonalization approaches. Analysis of the structure of the edge-state wave functions in terms of spin, momentum $k_x$ in the $x$-direction and position $y$, evidences the spin polarization structure of edge states at the boundaries. The purity and entropies of the reduced density matrix (RDM) inform on the regions $(k_x,y)$ where the spin sector is more and less entangled with the rest of the system.
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• Abstract: Localization and entanglement properties of edge states of HgTe quantum wells in a finite strip geometry of width $L$ are studied under quantum information concepts such as: 1) inverse participation ratio (IPR), which measures localization, and 2) entropies of the reduced density matrix (RDM) for the spin sector, which measures quantum correlations due to the spin-orbit coupling (SOC). Qualitative and quantitative information on the edge states energies and wavefunctions is extracted from analytic and numerical Hamiltonian diagonalization approaches. The previously observed exponential decay of the energy gap with $L$ and its modulations is confirmed and nontrivial consequences of the strip width and Rashba terms on the charge conductance are also reviewed. Analysis of the structure of the edge-state wave functions in terms of spin, momentum $k_x$ in the $x$-direction and position $y$, evidences the spin polarization structure of edge states at the boundaries. An IPR analysis reveals that the valence edge states show maximum localization on the boundaries for certain values of the momenta $k_x$ in the vicinity of the $\Gamma$ point. The edge-state wave packets participate of less and less momenta as we approach to the boundaries $y=0,L$ (and also the center $y=L/2$, for some of them) of the strip. A study of the RDM to the spin sector of edge states sheds complementary information on the structure of spin probabilities in $(k_x,y)$ space, giving clear location of extremal values. The purity and entropies of the RDM inform on the regions $(k_x,y)$ where the spin sector is more and less entangled with the rest of the system, due to SOC.

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