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arxiv 2110.06932 v2 pith:3AUMPDQY submitted 2021-10-13 quant-ph cond-mat.str-elhep-th

Chiral central charge from a single bulk wave function

classification quant-ph cond-mat.str-elhep-th
keywords centralchargechiralfunctionwavebulkcurrentdetermined
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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, 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.

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