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Universal entanglement signatures of foliated fracton phases
by Wilbur Shirley, Kevin Slagle, Xie Chen
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Xie Chen · Wilbur Shirley · Kevin Slagle |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10426v1 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | 2018-05-27 02:00 |
| Submitted by: | Shirley, Wilbur |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
Fracton models exhibit a variety of exotic properties and lie beyond the conventional framework of gapped topological order. In a previous work, we generalized the notion of gapped phase to one of foliated fracton phase by allowing the addition of layers of gapped two-dimensional resources in the adiabatic evolution between gapped three-dimensional models. Moreover, we showed that the X-cube model is a fixed point of one such phase. In this paper, according to this definition, we look for universal properties of such phases which remain invariant throughout the entire phase. We propose multi-partite entanglement quantities, generalizing the proposal of topological entanglement entropy designed for conventional topological phases. We present arguments for the universality of these quantities and show that they attain non-zero constant value in non-trivial foliated fracton phases.
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Report #2 by Anonymous (Referee 2) on 2018-6-23 (Invited Report)
- Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:1803.10426v1, delivered 2018-06-23, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.510
Strengths
1) this paper addresses the open question of understanding entanglement in foliated fracton phases
2) the authors study the different contribution to the entanglement entropy and propose schemes to distil a universal contribution, using multipartite entanglement measures
3) they show that the proposed universal signatures are constant throughout foliated fracton phases, by explicit calculation in a handful of model Hamiltonians
Weaknesses
1) it is not clear what to make of these universal signatures, why are they important, and whether they will have an impact on the related area of research. Further work is perhaps needed to better understand their significance, and possibly their relation to the structure of the excitations
Report
the paper is well structured and well written, accessible to a reader with some background on topological lattice models, entanglement entropy, and fracton phases. The results are valid, to the best of my understanding, and deserve publication in SciPost.
Requested changes
1) to improve the accessibility of the paper to a broader audience, the authors could perhaps spend a few words to explain what they mean by the double arrow "adiabatic evolution" in Eq.(1)
2) proofreading for typos: "the the" and "fracon". Missing period at the end of Eq.(5).
3) I think that the von Neumann entropy in Eq.(6) has the wrong sign
4) at the end of Sec.3.1, the authors cite Ref.32 on two occasions. I wonder if earlier references may be more appropriate here (at least in addition to Ref.32). For example, in relation to non-universal contributions due to the Euler characteristic, PRL 97, 050404 (2006); and for entanglement signatures of gapped 3D topological phases, Ref.33