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Volume-law entanglement fragmentation of quasiparticles

Quantum Physics 2025-09-17 v2 Statistical Mechanics Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We investigate the entanglement entropy in quantum states featuring repeated sequential excitations of unit patterns in momentum space. In the scaling limit, each unit pattern contributes independently and universally to the entanglement entropy, leading to a characteristic volume-law scaling. Crucially, this universal contribution remains identical for both free and interacting models, enabling decomposition of the total entanglement into pattern-specific components. Numerical verification in fermionic and bosonic chains confirms this volume-law fragmentation phenomenon. For fermionic systems, we derive analytical expressions where many-body entanglement becomes expressible through few-body entanglement components. Notably, this analytical framework extends to spin-1/2 XXZ chains through appropriate identifications.

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@article{arxiv.2411.12379,
  title  = {Volume-law entanglement fragmentation of quasiparticles},
  author = {Jiaju Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.12379},
  year   = {2025}
}

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17 pages, 8 figures, published version