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Universal entanglement revival of topological origin

Dongni Chen1,2, Stefano Chesi3,4, and Mahn-Soo Choi2,*

  • *Contact author: choims@korea.ac.kr
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Phys. Rev. A 112, 042440 – Published 29 October, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/qsc2-rcy7

Abstract

We investigate the dynamics of entanglement in dissipative fermionic and bosonic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) models and discover that they exhibit a revival dynamics of entanglement when the decoherence channel preserves the chiral symmetry. This behavior is only observable in the topological phase, and the visibility of the revival diminishes to zero at the phase boundary. Furthermore, the revival acquires a universal character, meaning that the entire time-evolution profile remains independent of system size, provided that the size exceeds the localization length of the edge modes associated with the topological phase. Our findings suggest that the universal entanglement revival originates from the topological properties of the SSH model. These dynamical properties may be experimentally accessible, for instance, by utilizing photonic quantum computers.

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Phys. Rev. A 112, 042440– Published 29 October, 2025
  • Received 27 April 2025
  • Accepted 25 September 2025
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