Topologically ordered phases of matter can be characterized by the presence of a universal, constant contribution to the entanglement entropy known as the topological entanglement entropy (TEE). The TEE can be calculated for Abelian phases via a “cut-and-glue” approach by treating the entanglement cut as a physical cut, coupling the resulting gapless edges with explicit tunneling terms, and computing the entanglement between the two edges. We provide a first step towards extending this methodology to non-Abelian topological phases, focusing on the generalized Moore-Read (MR) fractional quantum Hall states at filling fractions $\nu =1/n$. We consider interfaces between different MR states, write down explicit gapping interactions, which we motivate using an anyon condensation picture, and compute the entanglement entropy for an entanglement cut lying along the interface. Our work provides new insight towards understanding the connections between anyon condensation, gapped interfaces of non-Abelian phases, and TEE.

• Received 15 April 2020
• Accepted 15 June 2020

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.102.045102