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Relevant long-range interaction of the entanglement Hamiltonian emerges from a short-range gapped system

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2024-06-11 v3 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Beyond the Li-Haldane-Poilblanc conjecture, we find the entanglement Hamiltonian (EH) is actually not closely similar to the original Hamiltonian on the virtual edge. Unexpectedly, the EH has some relevant long-range interacting terms which hugely affect the physics. Without loss of generality, we study a spin-1/2 Heisenberg bilayer to obtain the entanglement information between the two layers through our newly developed quantum Monte Carlo scheme, which can simulate large-scale EH. Although the entanglement spectrum carrying the Goldstone mode seems like a Heisenberg model on a single layer, which is consistent with Li-Haldane-Poilblanc conjecture, we demonstrate that there actually exists a finite-temperature phase transition of the EH. The results violate the Mermin-Wagner theorem, which means there should be relevant long-range terms in the EH. It reveals that the Li-Haldane-Poilblanc conjecture ignores necessary corrections for the EH which may lead totally different physics.

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@article{arxiv.2309.16089,
  title  = {Relevant long-range interaction of the entanglement Hamiltonian emerges from a short-range gapped system},
  author = {Chuhao Li and Rui-Zhen Huang and Yi-Ming Ding and Zi Yang Meng and Yan-Cheng Wang and Zheng Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.16089},
  year   = {2024}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures