PIRSA:14020132

How universal is the entanglement spectrum?

Chandran, A. (2014). How universal is the entanglement spectrum?. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/14020132

Chandran, Anushya. How universal is the entanglement spectrum?. Perimeter Institute, Feb. 14, 2014, https://pirsa.org/14020132 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:14020132,
            doi = {10.48660/14020132},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/14020132},
            author = {Chandran, Anushya},
            keywords = {},
            language = {en},
            title = {How universal is the entanglement spectrum?},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2014},
            month = {feb},
            note = {PIRSA:14020132 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Anushya Chandran Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

DOI 10.48660/14020132
Collection
Talk Type Conference

Abstract

It is now commonly believed that the ground state entanglement spectrum (ES) exhibits universal features characteristic of a given phase. In this talk, I will present evidence to the contrary. I will show that the entanglement Hamiltonian can undergo quantum phase transitions in which its ground state and low energy spectrum exhibit singular changes, even when the physical system remains in the same phase. For broken symmetry problems, this implies that the ES and the Renyi entropies can mislead entirely, while for quantum Hall systems the ES has much less universal content than assumed to date. I will also discuss the consequences of the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis for the entanglement Hamiltonian, showing that a pure state in a sub-system can capture the properties of the reduced density matrix.