Extracting excitations from model state entanglement

A. Sterdyniak, N. Regnault, B. A. Bernevig

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Abstract

We extend the concept of an entanglement spectrum from the geometrical to the particle bipartite partition. We apply this to several fractional quantum Hall wave functions on both sphere and torus geometries to show that this new type of entanglement spectra completely reveals the physics of bulk quasihole excitations. While this is easily understood when a local Hamiltonian for the model state exists, we show that the quasihole wave functions are encoded within the model state even when such a Hamiltonian is not known. As a nontrivial example, we look at Jain's composite fermion states and obtain their quasiholes directly from the model state wave function. We reach similar conclusions for wave functions described by Jack polynomials.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number100405
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume106
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 8 2011

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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