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Entanglement blossom in a simplex matryoshka

Quantum Physics 2025-07-29 v3 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Exotic entanglement entropy scaling properties usually come with interesting entanglement structures in real space and novel metrics of the spacetime lattice. One prominent example is the rainbow chain where lattice sites symmetric about the center form entangled Bell pairs due to an effective long-range coupling from the strong inhomogeneity of the coupling strength. This manuscript generalizes the rainbow chain to higher dimensional space on lattices with Hausdorff dimension one and enlarged local Hilbert space keeping the Hamiltonian frustration free. The effective Hamiltonian from the Schrieffer-Wolf transformation is given by a stacking of layers of kk-simplices with 00-dimensional (fully-connected) antiferromagnetic Hamiltonians, which can be diagonalized analytically with Young operators. The original lattice can be obtained from proliferating disinclination defects in a regular kk-dimensional cubical lattice, which introduces curvature at the center of the lattice. The model interpolates between the SYK model and the free-fermionic XX spin chain, and hence might be potentially useful in understanding black hole physics and holography.

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@article{arxiv.2301.04170,
  title  = {Entanglement blossom in a simplex matryoshka},
  author = {Zhao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.04170},
  year   = {2025}
}
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