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Relationship between symmetry protected topological phases and boundary conformal field theories via the entanglement spectrum

Relationship between symmetry protected topological phases and boundary conformal field theories via the entanglement spectrum

Quantum phase transitions out of a symmetry-protected topological (SPT) phase in (1+1) dimensions into an adjacent, topologically distinct SPT phase protected by the same symmetry or a trivial gapped phase, are typically described by a conformal field theory (CFT). At the same time, the low-lying entanglement spectrum of a gapped …