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Scaling of the von Neumann entropy across a finite temperature phase transition

Quantum Physics 2011-07-13 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

The spectrum of the reduced density matrix and the temperature dependence of the von Neumann entropy (VNE) are analytically obtained for a system of hard core bosons on a complete graph which exhibits a phase transition to a Bose-Einstein condensate at T=TcT=T_c. It is demonstrated that the VNE undergoes a crossover from purely logarithmic at T=0 to purely linear in block size nn behaviour for TTcT\geq T_{c}. For intermediate temperatures, VNE is a sum of two contributions which are identified as the classical (Gibbs) and the quantum (due to entanglement) parts of the von Neumann entropy.

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@article{arxiv.0804.1061,
  title  = {Scaling of the von Neumann entropy across a finite temperature phase transition},
  author = {Vladislav Popkov and Mario Salerno},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0804.1061},
  year   = {2011}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures