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4 claims from 3 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

   Provably efficient machine learning for quantum many-body problems

   Huang, Kueng, Torlai, Albert and Preskill · Science · 2022

   The paper proves that classical machine learning can efficiently predict ground state properties of gapped quantum systems and classify quantum phases, supported by numerical experiments on several model systems.

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   1. UncheckedUnder widely accepted complexity assumptions, classical algorithms that do not learn from data cannot match the guarantee the paper proves for classical machine learning.“In contrast, under widely accepted complexity theory assumptions, classical algorithms that do not learn from data cannot achieve the same guarantee.”
   2. Unchecked“In this work, we prove that classical ML algorithms can efficiently predict ground state properties of gapped Hamiltonians in finite spatial dimensions, after learning from data obtained by measuring other Hamiltonians in the same quantum phase of matter.”

3. 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.”