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Entanglement and Topology in Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (2308.08588v1)

Published 16 Aug 2023 in cond-mat.str-el, cond-mat.mes-hall, physics.optics, and quant-ph

Abstract: Cavity materials are a frontier to investigate the role of light-matter interactions on the properties of electronic phases of matter. In this work, we raise a fundamental question: can non-local interactions mediated by cavity photons destabilize a topological electronic phase? We investigate this question by characterizing entanglement, energy spectrum and correlation functions of the topological Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain interacting with an optical cavity mode. Employing density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) and exact diagonalization (ED), we demonstrate the stability of the edge state and establish an area law scaling for the ground state entanglement entropy, despite long-range correlations induced by light-matter interactions. These features are linked to gauge invariance and the scaling of virtual photon excitations entangled with matter, effectively computed in a low-dimensional Krylov subspace of the full Hilbert space. This work provides a framework for characterizing novel equilibrium phenomena in topological cavity materials.

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