Published August 21, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Characterizing the entanglement of anyonic systems using the anyonic partial transpose

  • 1. Technical University of Munich, TUM School of Natural Sciences, Physics Department, 85748 Garching, Germany and Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST), Schellingstr. 4, 80799 München, Germany

Description

Entanglement of mixed quantum states can be quantified using the partial transpose and its corresponding entanglement measure, the logarithmic negativity. Recently, the notion of partial transpose has been extended to systems of anyons, which are exotic quasiparticles whose exchange statistics go beyond the bosonic and fermionic cases. Studying the fundamental properties of this anyonic partial transpose, we first reveal that when applied to the special case of fermionic systems, it can be reduced to the fermionic partial transpose or its twisted variant depending on whether or not a boundary Majorana fermion is present. Focusing on ground state properties, we find that the anyonic partial transpose captures both the correct entanglement scaling for gapless systems, as predicted by conformal field theory, and the phase transition between a topologically trivial and a nontrivial phase. For non-Abelian anyons and the bipartition geometry, we find a rich multiplet structure in the eigenvalues of the partial transpose, the so-called negativity spectrum, and reveal the possibility of defining both a charge- and an imbalance-resolved negativity.

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.110.085143;
arXiv
arXiv:2403.12121;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100000781; 10.13039/501100007601;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review B
Journal Volume
110
Journal Issue
8
Journal Page Range
19 pgs.
ISSN
1550-235X

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Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
771537; 851161
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Funding organization
European Research Council; Horizon 2020