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Negativity spectrum in 1D gapped phases of matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-04-18 v2 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We investigate the spectrum of the partial transpose (negativity spectrum) of two adjacent regions in gapped one-dimensional models. We show that, in the limit of large regions, the negativity spectrum is entirely reconstructed from the entanglement spectrum of the bipartite system. We exploit this result in the XXZ spin chain, for which the entanglement spectrum is known by means of the corner transfer matrix. We find that the negativity spectrum levels are equally spaced, the spacing being half that in the entanglement spectrum. Moreover, the degeneracy of the spectrum is described by elegant combinatorial formulas, which are related to the counting of integer partitions. We also derive the asymptotic distribution of the negativity spectrum. We provide exact results for the logarithmic negativity and for the moments of the partial transpose. They exhibit unusual scaling corrections in the limit Δ1+\Delta\to1^+ with a corrections exponent which is the same as that for the R\'enyi entropies.

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@article{arxiv.1612.05172,
  title  = {Negativity spectrum in 1D gapped phases of matter},
  author = {Glen Bigan Mbeng and Vincenzo Alba and Pasquale Calabrese},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.05172},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

20 pages, 7 figures. As published. Contribution to the special issue of J. Phys. A: "John Cardy's scale-invariant journey in low dimensions: a special issue for his 70th birthday"