Entanglement in Topological Phases
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چکیده
In this report, the research conducted on entanglement in topological phases is detailed and summarized. This includes background developed and an explanation of the structure of the code written it MATLAB to compute various aspects of entanglement for topological systems. Topological phases are generally those that cannot be described by Landau symmetry-breaking, including the fractional quantum Hall states (fQHE). From the reading, it is found that the entanglement entropy (EE) and entanglement spectrum (ES) are useful tools to characterize topological phases. Further, the code written is successful in reproducing the results of several papers that calculate the EE and ES.
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