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Negativity for two blocks in the one dimensional Spin 1 AKLT model

Quantum Physics 2011-12-15 v1

Abstract

In this paper we compute the entanglement, as quantified by negativity, between two blocks of length LAL_A and LBL_B, separated by LL sites in the one dimensional spin-1 AKLT model. We took the model with two different boundary conditions. We consider the case of NN spins 1 in the bulk and one spin 1/2 at each boundary which constitute an unique ground state, and the case of just spins 1, even at the end of the chain, where the degeneracy of the ground state is four. In both scenarios we made a partition consisting of two blocks AA and BB, containing LAL_A and LBL_B sites respectively. The separation of these two blocks is LL. In both cases we explicitly obtain the reduced density matrix of the blocks AA and BB. We prove that the negativity in the first case vanishes identically for L1L\geq 1 while in the second scenario it may approach a constant value N=1/2N=1/2 for each degenerate eigenstate depending on the way one constructs these eigenstates. However, as there is some freedom in constructing these eigenstates, vanishing entanglement is also possible in the latter case. Additionally, we also compute the entanglement between non-complementary blocks in the case of periodic boundary conditions for the spin-1 AKLT model for which there is a unique ground state. Even in this case, we find that the negativity of separated blocks of spins is zero.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1109.4971,
  title  = {Negativity for two blocks in the one dimensional Spin 1 AKLT model},
  author = {Raul A. Santos and V. Korepin and Sougato Bose},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.4971},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures

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