Signatures of topological phase transitions in higher Landau levels of HgTe/CdTe quantum wells from an information theory perspective
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Materia
Topological phases 2D Dirac materials Landau levels Information theory
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2022-08-13Referencia bibliográfica
Manuel Calixto... [et al.]. Signatures of topological phase transitions in higher Landau levels of HgTe/CdTe quantum wells from an information theory perspective, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Volume 605, 2022, 128057, ISSN 0378-4371, [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2022.128057]
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PGC2018-097831-B-I00; UHU-1262561 and FQM-381; Universidad de Granada / CBUAResumen
We analyze the structure of low energy Hamiltonian eigenstates in zincblende heterostructures
(like HgTe/CdTe quantum wells) near the gamma point, under magnetic
fields, to characterize topological phase transitions (TPT) under an information-theoretic
perspective. Using information markers like entanglement, quantum fluctuations, fidelity
susceptibility, participation ration, area in phase space, etc., we realize that higher
Landau levels (LL) feel the topological phase transition slightly displaced with regard
to the edge state, thus leading to the concept of ‘‘higher Landau level |n| > 0 TPT’’, as
‘‘echoes’’ of the standard edge state n = 0 TPT. We compute the critical magnetic field
and the critical HgTe layer thickness at which these information measures of higher
Landau levels undergo a structural change.