Kim, I.
, Shi, B.
, Kato, K.
and Albert, V.
(2022),
Chiral central charge from a single bulk wave function, arXiv, [online], https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.176402, https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=933092
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Chiral central charge from a single bulk wave function
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Isaac H. Kim, Bowen Shi, Kohtaro Kato,
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A (2+1)-dimensional gapped quantum many-body system can have a topologically protected energy current at its edge. The magnitude of this current is determined entirely by the temperature and the chiral central charge c_-, a quantity associated with the effective field theory of the edge. We derive a formula for the chiral central charge that, akin to the topological entanglement entropy, is completely determined by the many-body ground state wave function in the bulk. According to our formula, nonzero chiral central charge gives rise to a topological obstruction that prevents the ground state wave function from being real-valued in any local product basis.Citation
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