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Typical entanglement entropy in systems with particle-number conservation

Quantum Physics 2024-12-31 v2 Quantum Gases Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We calculate the typical bipartite entanglement entropy SAN\langle S_A\rangle_N in systems containing indistinguishable particles of any kind as a function of the total particle number NN, the volume VV, and the subsystem fraction f=VA/Vf=V_A/V, where VAV_A is the volume of the subsystem. We expand our result as a power series SAN=afV+bV+c+o(1)\langle S_A\rangle_N=a f V+b\sqrt{V}+c+o(1), and find that cc is universal (i.e., independent of the system type), while aa and bb can be obtained from a generating function characterizing the local Hilbert space dimension. We illustrate the generality of our findings by studying a wide range of different systems, e.g., bosons, fermions, spins, and mixtures thereof. We provide evidence that our analytical results describe the entanglement entropy of highly excited eigenstates of quantum-chaotic spin and boson systems, which is distinct from that of integrable counterparts.

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@article{arxiv.2310.19862,
  title  = {Typical entanglement entropy in systems with particle-number conservation},
  author = {Yale Yauk and Rohit Patil and Yicheng Zhang and Marcos Rigol and Lucas Hackl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.19862},
  year   = {2024}
}

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23+6 pages, 8+1 figures

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