Entanglement in gapless resonating-valence-bond states

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 15, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Stéphan, Jean Marie ^a   Ju, Hyejin ^b   Fendley, Paul ^a   Melko, Roger G ^c,d  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^d PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE THEORIES; ENTANGLEMENT ENTROPY; EXACT COMPUTATIONS; INDEX N; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; SENSITIVE PROBE; SQUARE LATTICES; TWO CYLINDERS;

ELECTRONIC STATES; ENTROPY;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 84873343289     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/1/015004     Document Type: Article

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