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Selected writings

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Selected writings

Suggestion that topological order goes along with long-range entanglement:

• Xie Chen, Zheng-Cheng Gu, Xiao-Gang Wen, Local unitary transformation, long-range quantum entanglement, wave function renormalization, and topological order Phys. Rev. B 82 155138 (2010) [arXiv:1004.3835]

Claim that group cohomology classifies some symmetry protected topological phases:

• Xie Chen, Zheng-Cheng Gu, Zheng-Xin Liu, Xiao-Gang Wen, Symmetry protected topological orders and the group cohomology of their symmetry group, Phys. Rev. B 87 (2013) 155114 [arXiv:1106.4772]

• Xie Chen, Zheng-Cheng Gu, Zheng-Xin Liu, Xiao-Gang Wen, Symmetry protected topological orders and the group cohomology of their symmetry group, Science 338 (2012) 1604-1606 (arXiv:10.1103/PhysRevB.87.155114)

More on symmetry protected topological phases:

• Xie Chen, Yuan-Ming Lu, Ashvin Vishwanath: Symmetry-protected topological phases from decorated domain walls, Nature Communications 5 3507 (2014) [doi:10.1038/ncomms4507]

On quantum information theory (entanglement entropy) applied to topological phases of matter/topological order:

• Bei Zeng, Xie Chen, Duan-Lu Zhou, Xiao-Gang Wen:

  Quantum Information Meets Quantum Matter – From Quantum Entanglement to Topological Phases of Many-Body Systems, Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Springer (2019) [[arXiv:1508.02595, doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-9084-9]]