Entanglement of Complex Quantum Systems (Prof. N. Schuch)

  • Date: Apr 12, 2016
  • Time: 02:30 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Prof. Dr. N. Schuch, MPQ, Theory Division
  • Head of Research Group "Entranglement of Complex Quantum Systems"
  • Room: Herbert Walther Lecture Hall
  • Host: MPQ
Complex quantum systems exhibit a variety of unconventional phenomena, such as protected quantized edge currents or excitations with non-trivial statistics. 

These phenomena are rooted in the complex global entanglement structure present in those systems, referred to as topological order. In this talk, I will explain how one can model the physics of such systems based on their entanglement structure in a way which allows to reconcile a local description with global entanglement, and to understand the emergence of global order from local properties. In particular, I will discuss how the local symmetry structure of the system can give rise to global topological order, and the way in which this order shows up in the edge physics and the entanglement properties of the system.

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