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Quantum Physics

Title: Chiral Virasoro algebra from a single wavefunction

Abstract: Chiral edges of 2+1D systems can have very robust emergent conformal symmetry. When the edge is purely chiral, the Hilbert space of low-energy edge excitations can form a representation of a single Virasoro algebra. We propose a method to systematically extract the generators of the Virasoro algebra from a single ground state wavefunction, using entanglement bootstrap and an input from the edge conformal field theory. We corroborate our construction by numerically verifying the commutation relations of the generators. We also study the unitary flows generated by these operators, whose properties (such as energy and state overlap) are shown numerically to agree with our analytical predictions.
Comments: 60+20 pages, 28 figures
Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall); Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el); High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
Cite as: arXiv:2403.18410 [quant-ph]
  (or arXiv:2403.18410v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

Submission history

From: Xiang Li [view email]
[v1] Wed, 27 Mar 2024 09:54:21 GMT (2103kb,D)

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