Identifying topological order by entanglement entropy

Nature Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 902-905

  Jiang, Hong Chen ^a   Wang, Zhenghan ^b   Balents, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; GROUND STATE; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; TOPOLOGY;

CORRELATION LENGTHS; DENSITY MATRIX RENORMALIZATION GROUP; ENTANGLEMENT ENTROPY; MICROSCOPIC MODELS; QUANTUM STATISTICS; TOPOLOGICAL ENTANGLEMENT; TOPOLOGICAL PHASE; TOPOLOGICAL PHASIS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 84870609669     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2465     Document Type: Article

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