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5 claims from 4 papers

1. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Topological Entanglement Entropy

   Kitaev and Preskill · Physical Review Letters · 2006

   The paper characterises ground-state entanglement in a gapped, topologically ordered 2D medium, showing the entropy of a disk contains a universal constant, and derives a formula for it using topological quantum field theory.

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   1. UncheckedIn a gapped topologically ordered 2D system, the entanglement entropy of a disk has a non-universal boundary term and a universal constant offset, -γ.“The coefficient α, arising from short wavelength modes localized near the boundary, is nonuniversal and ultraviolet divergent, but -γis a universal additive constant characterizing a global feature of the entanglement in the ground state.”

2. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Predicting many properties of a quantum system from very few measurements

   Huang, Kueng and Preskill · Nature Physics · 2020

   The paper presents classical shadows, a way to build an approximate classical description of a quantum state from very few measurements, and uses it to predict many properties, supported by numerical experiments.

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   1. Unchecked“The number of measurements is independent of the system size, and saturates information-theoretic lower bounds.”
   2. UncheckedWith the classical shadow method, the properties of a quantum state to be predicted can be chosen after the measurements have already been made.“Moreover, target properties to predict can be selected after the measurements are completed.”

3. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Neural-network quantum state tomography

   Torlai, Mazzola, Carrasquilla, Troyer, Melko and Carleo · Nature Physics · 2018

   The paper presents a machine learning approach to quantum-state tomography that reconstructs highly entangled many-body states, including quantities such as entanglement entropy, from simple measurements.

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   1. UncheckedMachine learning methods can be used efficiently to reconstruct highly entangled quantum states, in both one and two dimensions, as the paper shows.“Here we show that machine learning techniques can be efficiently used for QST of highly-entangled states, in both one and two dimensions.”

4. Physics and Astronomy › Quantum many-body systems

   Quantum phases of Rydberg atoms on a kagome lattice

   Samajdar, Ho, Pichler, Lukin and Sachdev · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021

   The paper studies zero-temperature phases of Rydberg atoms on a kagome lattice, finding many solid phases and a novel dense regime that may contain topologically ordered phases.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors argue that a dense-excitation regime of Rydberg atoms on a kagome lattice could host one or more phases with topological order.“From a mapping to the triangular lattice quantum dimer model, and theories of quantum phase transitions out of the proximate solid phases, we argue that this regime could contain one or more phases with topological order.”