Position-momentum duality in the entanglement spectrum of free fermions
Abstract
We propose an exact equivalence between the entanglement spectra of two completely different free-fermion systems at zero temperature. This equivalence follows from a position-momentum duality where the physical roles of the occupied band and real space projectors are exchanged. We examine the physical consequences of this duality in multi-band models and as an example also physically motivate the equivalence of the entanglement spectrum of a real space partitioned two-band topological insulator with that of a bilayer Fermi gas with an interlayer partition. This duality has an interesting relation with the Wannier Spectrum in the high-temperature limit and can also be extended to other basis-independent physical quantities like particle-number fluctuations.
- Publication:
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Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
- Pub Date:
- October 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1088/1742-5468/2014/10/P10023
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1403.1039
- Bibcode:
- 2014JSMTE..10..023L
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Strongly Correlated Electrons;
- Condensed Matter - Other Condensed Matter;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 3 figures