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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 77, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.054433
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- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [844115] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We study a quantum phase transition between a phase which is topologically ordered and one which is not. We focus on a spin model, an extension of the toric code, for which we obtain the exact ground state for all values of the coupling constant that takes the system across the phase transition. We compute the entanglement and the topological entropy of the system as a function of this coupling constant and show that the topological entropy remains constant all the way up to the critical point and jumps to zero beyond it. Despite the jump in the topological entropy, the transition is second order as detected via local observables.
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