简介: |
Quantum entanglement measures of many-body states have been
?increasingly useful to characterizephases of matter. Here we explore
a ?surprising connection between symmetry-protected topology (SPT)
and ?separability of their boundary mixed states. Specifically, we
consider ?1d lattice systems with anomalous symmetry G, and prove
that any mixed ?state ρ that is strongly symmetric under G, in the
sense that Gρ~ρ, is ?necessarily tripartite non-separable.
Furthermore, such states cannot ?be prepared from any tripartite
separable states using finite-depth ?local quantum channels, so the
non-separability is long-ranged in ?nature. The
anomaly-nonseparability connection thus allows us to ?generate simple
examples of mixed states with nontrivial long-ranged ?multi-partite
entanglement. We further conjecture (with some evidence) ?that in
general dimension d, a strongly symmetric mixed state under an
?anomalous symmetry is necessarily (d+2)-partite non-separable, in a
?long-ranged sense. |