Research report 2016 - Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

Entanglement and topological order in complex quantum systems

Authors
Schuch, Norbert
Departments
Forschungsgruppe „Veschränkheit komplexer Quantensysteme“
Summary
Complex quantum systems can order in a wide range of different ways. While order in conventional matter can be explained from local properties of the system, strongly correlated systems exhibit so-called topological order, where the quantum correlations of the system, termed entanglement, organize globally. Yet, methods from Quantum Information Theory allow model the entanglement structure of these systems locally and thus open up a plethora of applications in the study and classification of topologically ordered systems.

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