Abstract
We generalize the topological entanglement entropy to a family of topological Rényi entropies parametrized by a parameter α, in an attempt to find new invariants for distinguishing topologically ordered phases. We show that, surprisingly, all topological Rényi entropies are the same, independent of α for all nonchiral topological phases. This independence shows that topologically ordered ground-state wave functions have reduced density matrices with a certain simple structure, and no additional universal information can be extracted from the entanglement spectrum.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 261601 |
Journal | Physical review letters |
Volume | 103 |
Issue number | 26 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2009 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Physics and Astronomy