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Entanglement over the rainbow

Quantum Physics 2015-06-09 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

In one dimension the area law for the entanglement entropy is violated maximally by the ground state of a strong inhomogeneous spin chain, the so called concentric singlet phase (CSP), that looks like a rainbow connecting the two halves of the chain. In this paper we show that, in the weak inhomogeneity limit, the rainbow state is a thermofield double of a conformal field theory with a temperature proportional to the inhomogeneity parameter. This result suggests some relation of the CSP with black holes. Finally, we propose an extension of the model to higher dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1503.02695,
  title  = {Entanglement over the rainbow},
  author = {Giovanni Ramírez and Javier Rodríguez-Laguna and Germán Sierra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.02695},
  year   = {2015}
}
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