Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: It is generally believed that two-dimensional gapped phases of matter with anyon excitations have a special pattern of entanglement in their ground-state wave function. Recently, this intuition was formalized by a universal inequality relating the topological entanglement entropy of a gapped ground state to the total quantum dimension of its anyon excitations. This paper presents an alternative, more direct proof of this inequality.
Author: Michael Levin
Institution: University of Chicago
Language: English
Topic: Quantum many-body systems
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
Funders: Simons Foundation, University of Chicago
Award: G6775432275
OpenAlex ID: W4403640792