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We introduce a new measure called reduced entropy of sublattice to quantify entanglement in spin, electron and boson systems. By analyzing this quantity, we reveal an intriguing connection between quantum entanglement and quantum phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Chen , Z. D. Wang , F. C. Zhang

This review focuses on the field of quantum entanglement applied to condensed matter physics systems with strong correlations, a domain which has rapidly grown over the last decade. By tracing out part of the degrees of freedom of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-11 Nicolas Laflorencie

We study the correlation between an impurity and a small ensemble of bosonic particles in one dimension. Our study analyzes the one-body density matrix and calculates the corresponding von Neumann entanglement entropy as a function of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-18 M. A. García-March , A. S. Dehkharghani , N. T. Zinner

We study the impurity entanglement entropy $S_e$ in quantum impurity models that feature a Kondo-destruction quantum critical point (QCP) arising from a pseudogap in the conduction-band density of states or from coupling to a bosonic bath.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-12-09 J. H. Pixley , Tathagata Chowdhury , M. T. Miecnikowski , Jaimie Stephens , Christopher Wagner , Kevin Ingersent

Bipartite entanglement entropy is one of the most useful characterizations of universal properties in a many-body quantum system. Far from equilibrium, there exist two highly effective theories describing its dynamics -- the quasiparticle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-20 Shachar Fraenkel , Colin Rylands

Impurities or boundaries often impose nontrivial boundary conditions on a gapless bulk, resulting in distinct boundary universality classes for a given bulk, phase transitions, and non-Fermi liquids in diverse systems. The underlying…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-06-21 Jeongmin Shim , Donghoon Kim , H. -S. Sim

We study the ground-state entanglement properties of nanostructured Kondo systems consisting of a pair of impurity spins coupled to a background of confined electrons. The competition between the RKKY-like coupling and the Kondo effect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Marco Nizama , Diego Frustaglia , Karen Hallberg

It has been known for some years that entanglement entropy obtained from partial trace does not provide the correct entanglement measure when applied to systems of identical particles. Several criteria have been proposed that have the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-05 A. P. Balachandran , T. R. Govindarajan , Amilcar R. de Queiroz , A. F. Reyes-Lega

After a brief introduction to the concept of entanglement in quantum systems, I apply these ideas to many-body systems and show that the von Neumann entropy is an effective way of characterising the entanglement between the degrees of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 John Cardy

The effects of boundary impurities on the entanglement entropy in an antiferromagnetic Heisenberg opened spin-$1/2$ chain are investigated. The method of density-matrix renormalization-group is used to obtain the bipartite entanglement. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jie Ren , Shiqun Zhu , Xiang Hao

To this day, von Neumann definition of entropy remains the most popular measure of quantum entanglement. Much of the literature on entanglement entropy, particularly in the context of field theory, has focused on isolating the UV…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 S. Mahesh Chandran , S. Shankaranarayanan

We review studies of entanglement entropy in systems with quenched randomness, concentrating on universal behavior at strongly random quantum critical points. The disorder-averaged entanglement entropy provides insight into the quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Gil Refael , Joel E. Moore

Two electronic channels competing to screen a single impurity spin, as in the two-channel Kondo model, are expected to generate a ground state with nontrivial entanglement structure. We exploit a spin-chain representation of the two-channel…

Quantum entanglement manifests as a distinctive correlation between particles that transcends classical boundaries when their quantum states cannot be described independently. On the other hand, as quantum systems interact with their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Samuel Marquez Gonzalez

We compute the dynamics of entanglement in the minimal setup producing ergodic and mixing quantum many-body dynamics, which we previously dubbed {\em boundary chaos}. This consists of a free, non-interacting brickwork quantum circuit, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-13 Felix Fritzsch , Roopayan Ghosh , Tomaž Prosen

We study entanglement in the scattering processes by fixed impurity and Kondo impurity. The fixed impurity plays a role as spin state filter that is employed to concentrate entanglement between the scattering particle and the unscattering…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dong Yang , Shi-Jian Gu , Haibin Li

We study the entanglement of an impurity at one end of a spin chain with a block of spins using negativity as a true measure of entanglement to characterize the unique features of the gapless Kondo regime in the spin chain Kondo model. For…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Abolfazl Bayat , Pasquale Sodano , Sougato Bose

Entanglement entropy, which is a measure of quantum correlations between separate parts of a many-body system, has emerged recently as a fundamental quantity in broad areas of theoretical physics, from cosmology and field theory to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-09 Israel Klich , Leonid Levitov

Using one-dimensional spin-orbital model as a typical example of quantum spin systems with richer symmetries, we study the effect of an isolated impurity on its low energy dynamics in the gapless phase through bosonization and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Yu-Wen Lee , Yu-Li Lee

We present a number of explicit calculations of Renyi and entanglement entropies in situations where the entangling surface intersects the boundary in $d$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime. When the boundary is a single plane we compute the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-24 Clement Berthiere , Sergey N. Solodukhin