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Entanglement Spectrum of Topological Insulators and Superconductors

2010; American Physical Society; Volume: 104; Issue: 13 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physrevlett.104.130502

1092-0145

Lukasz Fidkowski,

Quantum and electron transport phenomena

We study two a priori unrelated constructions: the spectrum of edge modes in a band topological insulator or superconductor with a physical edge, and the ground state entanglement spectrum in an extended system where an edge is simulated by an entanglement bipartition. We prove an exact relation between the ground state entanglement spectrum of such a system and the spectrum edge modes of the corresponding spectrally flattened Hamiltonian. In particular, we show that gapless edge modes result in degeneracies of the entanglement spectrum.