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The entanglement asymmetry is an information based observable that quantifies the degree of symmetry breaking in a region of an extended quantum system. We investigate this measure in the ground state of one dimensional critical systems…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Michele Fossati , Filiberto Ares , Jerome Dubail , Pasquale Calabrese

In this paper we develop a new approach to the investigation of the bi-partite entanglement entropy in integrable quantum spin chains. Our method employs the well-known replica trick, thus taking a replica version of the spin chain model as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-18 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Benjamin Doyon

We study the scaling of the entanglement entropy in different classes of one-dimensional fermionic quasiperiodic systems with and without pairing, focusing on multifractal critical points/phases. We find that the entanglement entropy scales…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-12 Miguel Gonçalves

We calculate the entanglement entropy of a non-contiguous subsystem of a chain of free fermions. The starting point is a formula suggested by Jin and Korepin, \texttt{arXiv:1104.1004}, for the reduced density of states of two disjoint…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-16 L. Brightmore , G. P. Geher , A. R. Its , V. E. Korepin , F. Mezzadri , M. Y. Mo , J. A. Virtanen

We study the scaling of the Renyi and entanglement entropy of two disjoint blocks of critical Ising models, as function of their sizes and separations. We present analytic results based on conformal field theory that are quantitatively…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-22 Vincenzo Alba , Luca Tagliacozzo , Pasquale Calabrese

For quantum critical spin chains without disorder, it is known that the entanglement of a segment of N>>1 spins with the remainder is logarithmic in N with a prefactor fixed by the central charge of the associated conformal field theory. We…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Refael , J. E. Moore

We obtain a formula for the determinant of a block Toeplitz matrix associated with a quadratic fermionic chain with complex coupling. Such couplings break reflection symmetry and/or charge conjugation symmetry. We then apply this formula to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 F. Ares , J. G. Esteve , F. Falceto , A. R. de Queiroz

We carry out a numerical study of the bi-partite entanglement entropy in the gapped regime of two paradigmatic quantum spin chain models: the Ising chain in an external magnetic field and the anti-ferromagnetic XXZ model. The universal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 Emanuele Levi , Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Benjamin Doyon

Similarly to the system Hamiltonian, a subsystem's reduced density matrix is composed of blocks characterized by symmetry quantum numbers (charge sectors). We present a geometric approach for extracting the contribution of individual charge…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-17 Moshe Goldstein , Eran Sela

We calculate the half-chain entanglement entropy of the ground state in the one-dimensional spinless fermion model. Considering a tiny corner of the Hilbert space represented by matrix product states, we efficiently find the ground state by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-01 Myung-Hoon Chung

We consider one-dimensional quantum spin chain, which is called XX model, XX0 model or isotropic XY model in a transverse magnetic field. We study the model on the infinite lattice at zero temperature. We are interested in the entropy of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 B. -Q. Jin , V. E. Korepin

Recent studies have shown that logarithmic divergence of entanglement entropy as function of size of a subsystem is a signature of criticality in quantum models. We demonstrate that the ground state entanglement entropy of $ n$ sites for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-13 Vladislav Popkov , Mario Salerno

Random spin chains at quantum critical points exhibit an entanglement entropy between a segment of length L and the rest of the chain that scales as log_2 L with a universal coefficient. Since for pure quantum critical spin chains this…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Gil Refael , Joel E. Moore

The entanglement entropy of a pure quantum state of a bipartite system $A \cup B$ is defined as the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density matrix obtained by tracing over one of the two parts. Critical ground states of local…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-11-26 Eduardo Fradkin , Joel E. Moore

We analyze the entanglement properties of spins (qubits) close to the boundary of spin chains in the vicinity of a quantum critical point and show that the concurrence at the boundary is significantly different from the one of bulk spins.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-23 T. Stauber , F. Guinea

We establish that the leading critical scaling of the single-copy entanglement is exactly one half of the entropy of entanglement of a block in critical infinite spin chains in a general setting, using methods of conformal field theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Orus , J. I. Latorre , J. Eisert , M. Cramer

We study a Hamiltonian system describing a three-spin-1/2 cluster-like interaction competing with an Ising-like anti-ferromagnetic interaction. We compute free energy, spin correlation functions and entanglement both in the ground and in…

We consider the entanglement entropy for a line segment in the system of noninteracting one-dimensional fermions at zero temperature. In the limit of a large segment length L, the leading asymptotic behavior of this entropy is known to be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-11 Roman Süsstrunk , Dmitri A. Ivanov

We present details on a physical realization, in a many-body Hamiltonian system, of the abstract probabilistic structure recently exhibited by Gell-Mann, Sato and one of us (C.T.), that the nonadditive entropy $S_q=k [1- Tr…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Filippo Caruso , Constantino Tsallis

Entanglement entropy has proven invaluable to our understanding of quantum criticality. It is natural to try to extend the concept to non-unitary quantum mechanics, which has seen growing interest from areas as diverse as open quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-02 Romain Couvreur , Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Hubert Saleur