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Understanding the mechanisms by which complex correlations emerge through the dynamics of quantum many-body systems remains a fundamental challenge in modern physics. To address this, quench dynamics starting from nonthermal states have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 Zixia Wei , Yasushi Yoneta

Quantum entanglement, crucial for understanding quantum many-body systems and quantum gravity, is commonly assessed through various measures such as von Neumann entropy, mutual information, and entanglement contour, each with its inherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Liang-Hong Mo , Yao Zhou , Jia-Rui Sun , Peng Ye

Thanks to Pfaffian techniques, we study the R\'enyi entanglement entropies and the entanglement spectrum of large subsystems for two-dimensional Rokhsar-Kivelson wave functions constructed from a dimer model on the triangular lattice. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-02-13 Jean-Marie Stéphan , Grégoire Misguich , Vincent Pasquier

A method is presented for computing the R\'enyi entropy of a perturbed massless vacuum on the ball via a comparison with lattice field theory. If the perturbed state is Gaussian with smoothly varying correlation functions and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-02 Andrew Buchanan

Entanglement entropy appears as a central property of quantum systems in broad areas of physics. However, its precise value is often sensitive to unknown microphysics, rendering it incalculable. By considering parametric dependence on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-09 Mark P. Hertzberg , Frank Wilczek

We investigate the quantum entanglement content of quasi-particle excitations in extended many-body systems. We show that such excitations give an additive contribution to the bi-partite von Neumann and R\'enyi entanglement entropies that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-31 Olalla A. Castro-Alvaredo , Cecilia De Fazio , Benjamin Doyon , István M. Szécsényi

The entanglement entropy in a quantum field theory between two regions of space has been shown in simple cases to be proportional to the volume of the hypersurface separating the regions. We prove that this is true for a free scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Micheal S. Berger , Roman V. Buniy

Entanglement entropy is a fundamental measure of quantum entanglement for pure states, but for large-scale many-body systems, R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropy is much more computationally accessible. For mixed states, logarithmic negativity…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-08-14 Fo-Hong Wang , Xiao Yan Xu

We investigate quantum many-body systems where all low-energy states are entangled. As a tool for quantifying such systems, we introduce the concept of the entanglement gap, which is the difference in energy between the ground-state energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark R. Dowling , Andrew C. Doherty , Stephen D. Bartlett

Characterizing complexity and criticality in quantum systems requires diagnostics that are both computationally tractable and physically insightful. We apply a measure of quantum state complexity for n-qubit systems, defined as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Imre Varga

Entanglement calculations in quantum field theories are extremely challenging and typically rely on the replica trick, where the problem is rephrased in a study of defects. We demonstrate that the use of deep generative models drastically…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-12-15 Andrea Bulgarelli , Elia Cellini , Karl Jansen , Stefan Kühn , Alessandro Nada , Shinichi Nakajima , Kim A. Nicoli , Marco Panero

The entanglement entropy is a unique probe to reveal universal features of strongly interacting many-body systems. In two or more dimensions these features are subtle, and detecting them numerically requires extreme precision, a notoriously…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-03-05 Jonathan D'Emidio , Roman Orus , Nicolas Laflorencie , Fernando de Juan

We investigate the entanglement for a model of a particle moving in the lattice (many-body system). The interaction between the particle and the lattice is modelled using Hooke's law. The Feynman path integral approach is applied to compute…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-26 Chisanupong Puttarprom , Sikarin Yoo-Kong , Monsit Tanasittikisol , Watchara Liewrian

We investigate the entanglement in Hubbard models of hardcore bosons in $1D$, with an additional hardcore interaction on nearest neighbouring sites. We derive analytical formulas for the bipartite entanglement entropy for any number of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-07 Ioannis Kleftogiannis , Ilias Amanatidis , Vladislav Popkov

Despite being a well-established operational approach to quantify entanglement, R\'enyi entropy calculations have been plagued by their computational complexity. We introduce here a theoretical framework based on an optimal thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-14 Miha Srdinšek , Michele Casula , Rodolphe Vuilleumier

The concept of entanglement entropy appears in multiple contexts, from black hole physics to quantum information theory, where it measures the entanglement of quantum states. We investigate the entanglement entropy in a simple model, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Karyn Le Hur

Universal features in the scalings of Shannon-R\'enyi entropies of many-body groundstates are studied for interacting spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ systems across (2+1) dimensional $O(3)$ critical points, using quantum Monte Carlo simulations on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-23 David J. Luitz , Fabien Alet , Nicolas Laflorencie

In this thesis we present new results relevant to two important problems in quantum information science: the development of a theory of entanglement and the exploration of the use of controlled quantum systems to the simulation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-21 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao

After quantum quenches in many-body systems, finite subsystems evolve non-trivially in time, eventually approaching a stationary state. In typical situations, the reduced density matrix of a given subsystem begins and ends this endeavour as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-16 Isaac Reid , Bruno Bertini

We formulate a new ``Wigner characteristics'' based method to calculate entanglement entropies of subsystems of Fermions using Keldysh field theory. This bypasses the requirements of working with complicated manifolds for calculating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-30 Saranyo Moitra , Rajdeep Sensarma