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Entanglement of disjoint blocks in the one dimensional Spin 1 VBS

Quantum Physics 2012-03-28 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Starting with the valence bond solid (VBS) ground state of the 1D AKLT Hamiltonian, we make a partition of the system in 2 subsystems AA and BB, where AA is a block of LL consecutive spins and BB is it's complement. In that setting we compute the partial transpose density matrix with respect to AA, ρTA\rho^{T_A}. We obtain the spectrum of the transposed density matrix of the VBS pure system. Subsequently we define two disjoint blocks, AA and BB containing LAL_A and LBL_B spins respectively, separated by LL sites. Tracing away the spins which do not belong to ABA\cup B, we find an expression for the reduced density matrix of the AA and BB blocks ρ(A,B)\rho(A,B). With this expression (in the thermodynamic limit), we compute the entanglement spectrum and other several entanglement measures, as the purity P=tr(ρ(A,B)2)P={\rm tr}(\rho(A,B)^2), the negativity N\mathcal{N}, and the mutual entropy.

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@article{arxiv.1110.3300,
  title  = {Entanglement of disjoint blocks in the one dimensional Spin 1 VBS},
  author = {Raul A. Santos and Vladimir Korepin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1110.3300},
  year   = {2012}
}

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28 pages, 4 figures