Topological Multipartite Entanglement in a Fermi Liquid

Abstract

We show that the topology of the Fermi sea of a $D$-dimensional Fermi gas is reflected in the multipartite entanglement characterizing $D+1$ regions that meet at a point. For odd $D$ we introduce the multipartite mutual information, and show that it exhibits a ${\log }^{D}L$ divergence as a function of system size $L$ with a universal coefficient that is proportional to the Euler characteristic ${\chi }_F$ of the Fermi sea. This provides a generalization, for a Fermi gas, of the well-known result for $D=1$ that expresses the $\log L$ divergence of the bipartite entanglement entropy in terms of the central charge $c$ characterizing a conformal field theory. For even $D$ we introduce a charge-weighted entanglement entropy that is manifestly odd under a particle-hole transformation. We show that the corresponding charge-weighted mutual information exhibits a similar ${\log }^{D}L$ divergence proportional to ${\chi }_F$. Our analysis relates the universal behavior of the multipartite mutual information in the absence of interactions to the $D+1$'th order equal-time density correlation function, which we show exhibits a universal behavior in the long wavelength limit proportional to ${\chi }_F$. Our analytic results are based on the replica method. In addition we perform a numerical study of the charge-weighted mutual information for $D=2$ that confirms several aspects of the analytic theory. Finally, we consider the effect of interactions perturbatively within the replica theory. We show that for $D=3$ the ${\log }^{3}L$ divergence of the topological mutual information is not perturbed by weak short-ranged interactions, though for $D=2$ the charge-weighted mutual information is perturbed. Thus, for $D=3$ the multipartite mutual information provides a robust classification that distinguishes distinct topological Fermi liquid phases.

Published version. Main: 20 pages, 10 figures. Supplement: 5 appendices, 9 figures and 1 table

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