Disconnected entanglement entropy as a marker of edge modes in a periodically driven Kitaev chain

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Autori principali: Mondal, Saikat, Sen, Diptiman, Dutta, Amit
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author Mondal, Saikat
Sen, Diptiman
Dutta, Amit
author_facet Mondal, Saikat
Sen, Diptiman
Dutta, Amit
contents We study the disconnected entanglement entropy (DEE) of a Kitaev chain in which the chemical potential is periodically modulated with $δ$-function pulses within the framework of Floquet theory. For this driving protocol, the DEE of a sufficiently large system with open boundary conditions turns out to be integer-quantized, with the integer being equal to the number of Majorana edge modes localized at each edge of the chain generated by the periodic driving, thereby establishing the DEE as a marker for detecting Floquet Majorana edge modes. Analysing the DEE, we further show that these Majorana edge modes are robust against weak spatial disorder and temporal noise. Interestingly, we find that the DEE may, in some cases, also detect the anomalous edge modes which can be generated by periodic driving of the nearest-neighbor hopping, even though such modes have no topological significance and not robust against spatial disorder. We also probe the behaviour of the DEE for a kicked Ising chain in the presence of an integrability breaking interaction which has been experimentally realized.
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spellingShingle Disconnected entanglement entropy as a marker of edge modes in a periodically driven Kitaev chain
Mondal, Saikat
Sen, Diptiman
Dutta, Amit
Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
We study the disconnected entanglement entropy (DEE) of a Kitaev chain in which the chemical potential is periodically modulated with $δ$-function pulses within the framework of Floquet theory. For this driving protocol, the DEE of a sufficiently large system with open boundary conditions turns out to be integer-quantized, with the integer being equal to the number of Majorana edge modes localized at each edge of the chain generated by the periodic driving, thereby establishing the DEE as a marker for detecting Floquet Majorana edge modes. Analysing the DEE, we further show that these Majorana edge modes are robust against weak spatial disorder and temporal noise. Interestingly, we find that the DEE may, in some cases, also detect the anomalous edge modes which can be generated by periodic driving of the nearest-neighbor hopping, even though such modes have no topological significance and not robust against spatial disorder. We also probe the behaviour of the DEE for a kicked Ising chain in the presence of an integrability breaking interaction which has been experimentally realized.
title Disconnected entanglement entropy as a marker of edge modes in a periodically driven Kitaev chain
topic Statistical Mechanics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.16353