Quantum entanglement of fermionic gapless symmetry protected topological phases in one dimension

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18178v1
• Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:11:34 GMT
• Title: Quantum entanglement of fermionic gapless symmetry protected topological phases in one dimension
• Authors: Wen-Hao Zhong, Hai-Qing Lin, Xue-Jia Yu,
• Abstract summary: We show that two transition lines exhibit fundamentally different topological properties despite sharing the same central charge.<n>We also identify a novel Lifshitz multicritical point at the intersection of the three transition lines.<n>This work provides a valuable reference for investigating gapless topological phases of matter from the perspective of quantum entanglement.
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• Abstract: Quantum entanglement can be an effective diagnostic tool for probing topological phases protected by global symmetries. Recently, the notion of nontrivial topology in critical systems has been proposed and is attracting growing attention. In this work, as a concrete example, we explore the quantum entanglement properties of fermionic gapless topological states by constructing exactly solvable models based on stacked multiple Kitaev chains. We first analytically establish the global phase diagram using entanglement entropy and reveal three topologically distinct gapped phases with different winding numbers, along with three topologically distinct transition lines separating them. Importantly, we unambiguously demonstrate that two transition lines exhibit fundamentally different topological properties despite sharing the same central charge. Specifically, they display nontrivial topological degeneracy in the entanglement spectrum under periodic boundary conditions, thereby generalizing the Li-Haldane bulk-boundary correspondence to a broader class of fermionic gapless topological states. Additionally, we identify a novel Lifshitz multicritical point at the intersection of the three transition lines, which also exhibits nontrivial topological degeneracy. This work provides a valuable reference for investigating gapless topological phases of matter from the perspective of quantum entanglement.

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