TY - JOUR
T1 - How universal is the entanglement spectrum?
AU - Chandran, Anushya
AU - Khemani, Vedika
AU - Sondhi, Shivaji Lal
PY - 2014/8/4
Y1 - 2014/8/4
N2 - It is now commonly believed that the ground state entanglement spectrum (ES) exhibits universal features characteristic of a given phase. In this Letter, we show that this belief is false in general. Most significantly, we show that the entanglement Hamiltonian can undergo quantum phase transitions in which its ground state and low-energy spectrum exhibit singular changes, even when the physical system remains in the same phase. For broken symmetry problems, this implies that the low-energy ES and the Rényi entropies can mislead entirely, while for quantum Hall systems, the ES has much less universal content than assumed to date.
AB - It is now commonly believed that the ground state entanglement spectrum (ES) exhibits universal features characteristic of a given phase. In this Letter, we show that this belief is false in general. Most significantly, we show that the entanglement Hamiltonian can undergo quantum phase transitions in which its ground state and low-energy spectrum exhibit singular changes, even when the physical system remains in the same phase. For broken symmetry problems, this implies that the low-energy ES and the Rényi entropies can mislead entirely, while for quantum Hall systems, the ES has much less universal content than assumed to date.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.060501
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.060501
M3 - Article
C2 - 25148308
AN - SCOPUS:84905670763
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 113
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 6
M1 - 060501
ER -