Entanglement entropy and entanglement spectrum of the Kitaev model.
Entanglement entropy and entanglement spectrum of the Kitaev model.
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DOI：
10.1103/physrevlett.105.080501
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发表时间：
2010-01
影响因子：
8.6
通讯作者：
H. Yao;X. Qi
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作者：
H. Yao;X. Qi
In this letter, we obtain an exact formula for the entanglement entropy of the ground state and all excited states of the Kitaev model. Remarkably, the entanglement entropy can be expressed in a simple separable form S = SG+SF, with SF the entanglement entropy of a free Majorana fermion system and SG that of a Z2 gauge field. The Z2 gauge field part contributes to the universal "topological entanglement entropy" of the ground state while the fermion part is responsible for the nonlocal entanglement carried by the Z2 vortices (visons) in the non-Abelian phase. Our result also enables the calculation of the entire entanglement spectrum and the more general Renyi entropy of the Kitaev model. Based on our results we propose a new quantity to characterize topologically ordered states--the capacity of entanglement, which can distinguish the st ates with and without topologically protected gapless entanglement spectrum.
