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We prove that all R\'enyi entanglement entropies of spin-chains described by generic (gapped), translational invariant matrix product states (MPS) are extensive for disconnected sub-systems: All R\'enyi entanglement entropy densities of the…

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The scaling of entanglement with subsystem size encodes key information about phases and criticality, but the von Neumann entropy is costly to access in experiments and simulations, often requiring full state tomography. The second R\'enyi…

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We show that odd order R\'enyi entropies $S^{(2q+1)}$ of a system of interacting scalar fields can be calculated as the free energy of $2q+1$ replicas of the system with additional quadratic inter-replica couplings in the subsystem at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-20 Mrinal Kanti Sarkar , Saranyo Moitra , Rajdeep Sensarma

Entanglement entropy quantifies the amount of uncertainty of a quantum state. For quantum fields in curved space, entanglement entropy of the quantum field theory degrees of freedom is well-defined for a fixed background geometry. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-28 Xi Dong , Xiao-Liang Qi , Zhou Shangnan , Zhenbin Yang

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

We explore the R\'enyi entanglement entropies of a one-dimensional (line) subsystem of length $L$ embedded in two-dimensional $L\times L$ square lattice for quantum spin models whose ground-state breaks a continuous symmetry in the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-01 David J. Luitz , Xavier Plat , Fabien Alet , Nicolas Laflorencie

We discuss conditional Renyi and Tsallis entropies for bipartite quantum systems of finite dimension. We investigate the relation between the positivity of conditional entropies and entanglement properties. It is in particular shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Karl Gerd H. Vollbrecht , Michael M. Wolf

We consider single interval R\'enyi and entanglement entropies for a two dimensional conformal field theory on a circle at nonzero temperature. Assuming that the finite size of the system introduces a unique ground state with a nonzero mass…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-07 John Cardy , Christopher P. Herzog

Quantum entanglement in 3 spatial dimensions is studied in systems with physical boundaries when an entangling surface intersects the boundary. We show that there are universal logarithmic boundary terms in the entanglement R\'{e}nyi…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Dmitri Fursaev

A new numerical approach to entanglement entropies of the Renyi type is proposed for one-dimensional quantum field theories. The method extends the truncated conformal spectrum approach and we will demonstrate that it is especially suited…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-23 T. Palmai

At a quantum critical point, the universal scaling behavior of R\'enyi entanglement entropy is controlled by the universality class of the codimension-two R\'enyi (or conical) defects in the infrared theory. In this work we perform a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-04 Yanzhang Zhu , Zhe Wang , Meng Cheng , Zheng Yan

The entanglement entropy in clean, as well as in random quantum spin chains has a logarithmic size-dependence at the critical point. Here, we study the entanglement of composite systems that consist of a clean and a random part, both being…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-11-28 Robert Juhász , István A. Kovács , Gergő Roósz , Ferenc Iglói

We demonstrate that the condensed matter quantum systems encompassing two reservoirs connected by a junction permit a natural definition of flows of conserved measures, Renyi entropies. Such flows are similar to the flows of physical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Yuli V. Nazarov

Here, the entanglement entropy is calculated at the quantum multicritical point of the random transverse-field Ising model (RTIM). We use an efficient implementation of the strong disorder renormalization group method in two and three…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-04-22 István Kovács

We investigate the time-dependent R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropy after a quantum quench starting from the Mott-insulating and charge-density-wave states in a one-dimensional free boson system. The second R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropy is…

In this article, we present quantum algorithms for estimating von Neumann entropy and Renyi entropy, which are crucial physical and information-theoretical properties of a given quantum state $\rho$. Although there have been existing works…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-12 Nhat A. Nghiem , Tzu-Chieh Wei

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

We develop a unified framework for computing R\'enyi and entanglement entropies of arbitrary spacetime intervals in time-dependent states of $(1+1)$-dimensional conformal field theories. By combining the spacetime density matrix formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Wu-zhong Guo , Song He , Tao Liu

The so-called ``non-Fermi liquid'' behavior is very common in strongly correlated systems. However, its operational definition in terms of ``what it is not'' is a major obstacle against theoretical understanding of this fascinating…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-27 Junping Shao , Eun-Ah Kim , F. D. M. Haldane , Edward H. Rezayi

We derive closed-form asymptotic formulas for the R\'enyi entanglement entropies of the open XX spin-$1/2$ chain by mapping the underlying determinant of the boundary correlation matrix (which has Toeplitz-plus-Hankel structure) to a Hankel…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-08 Miguel Tierz