Quench dynamics of edge modes revealed by entanglement spectrum in a dimerized chain with dilute impurities
2018 ◽
Vol 32
(22)
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pp. 1850240
We study the evolution of the one-particle entanglement spectrum for the one-dimensional dimerized chain in the presence of impurities. When the system quenches from a topologically nontrivial phase to a trivial phase with disorder, the spectrum features the split of two zero-energy edge modes due to their interaction with impurities. Our observations demonstrate the feasibility of using entanglement spectrum to study the quench dynamics of topological systems.