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Topological and entanglement properties of resonating valence bond wave functions

Poilblanc, Didier and Schuch, Norbert and Pérez-García, David and Cirac, J. Ignacio (2012) Topological and entanglement properties of resonating valence bond wave functions. Physical Review B, 86 (1). Art. No. 014404. ISSN 1098-0121. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.86.014404. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20120807-124230681

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Abstract

We examine in details the connections between topological and entanglement properties of short-range resonating valence bond (RVB) wave functions using projected entangled pair states (PEPS) on kagome and square lattices on (quasi)infinite cylinders with generalized boundary conditions (and perimeters with up to 20 lattice spacings). By making use of disconnected topological sectors in the space of dimer lattice coverings, we explicitly derive (orthogonal) “minimally entangled” PEPS RVB states. For the kagome lattice, using the quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet as a reference model, we obtain the finite-size scaling with increasing cylinder perimeter of the vanishing energy separations between these states. In particular, we extract two separate (vanishing) energy scales corresponding (i) to insert a vison line between the two ends of the cylinder and (ii) to pull out and freeze a spin at either end. We also investigate the relations between bulk and boundary properties and show that, for a bipartition of the cylinder, the boundary Hamiltonian defined on the edge can be written as a product of a highly nonlocal projector, which fundamentally depends upon boundary conditions, with an emergent (local) SU(2)-invariant one-dimensional (superfluid) t -J Hamiltonian, which arises due to the symmetry properties of the auxiliary spins at the edge. This multiplicative structure, a consequence of the disconnected topological sectors in the space of dimer lattice coverings, is characteristic of the topological nature of the states. For minimally entangled RVB states, it is shown that the entanglement spectrum, which reflects the properties of the (gapless or gapped) edge modes, is a subset of the spectrum of the local Hamiltonian, e.g., half of it for the kagome RVB state, providing a simple argument on the origin of the topological entanglement entropy S_0 = −ln 2 of the Z_2 spin liquid. We propose to use these features to probe topological phases in microscopic Hamiltonians, and some results are compared to existing density matrix renormalization group data.


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Pérez-García, David0000-0003-2990-791X
Additional Information:© 2012 American Physical Society. Received 9 February 2012; published 6 July 2012. D.P. acknowledges support by the “Agence Nationale de la Recherche” under Grant No. ANR 2010 BLANC 0406-0. This work was granted access to the HPC resources of CALMIP under the allocation 2012-P1231. D.P. also thanks S. R. White for sharing DMRG results and S. A. Kivelson for useful correspondence. N.S. acknowledges helpful discussions with F. Verstraete and support by the Alexander von Humboldt foundation, the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (an NSF Physics Frontiers Center with support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation), and the NSF Grant No. PHY- 0803371. D.P.-G. acknowledges QUEVADIS and Spanish grants QUITEMAD and MTM2011-26912. J.I.C. acknowledges the EC project Quevadis, the DFG Forschergruppe 635, and Caixa Manresa. This work was initiated at Centro de Ciencias Pedro Pascual (Benasque, Spain).
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Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)ANR 2010 BLANC 0406-0
Alexander von Humboldt FoundationUNSPECIFIED
Institute for Quantum Information and MatterUNSPECIFIED
NSFPHY-0803371
QUEVADISUNSPECIFIED
QUITEMADUNSPECIFIED
Spanish GrantMTM2011-26912
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)635
Caixa ManresaUNSPECIFIED
NSF Physics Frontiers CenterUNSPECIFIED
Gordon and Betty Moore FoundationUNSPECIFIED
Issue or Number:1
Classification Code:PACS: 75.10.Kt; 03.65.Ud; 03.67.-a; 71.10.-w
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.86.014404
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Persistent URL:https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20120807-124230681
Official Citation:Poilblanc, D., N. Schuch, et al. (2012). "Topological and entanglement properties of resonating valence bond wave functions." Physical Review B 86(1): 014404.
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