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We analyze entanglement between quantum interacting fields. In particular, we use R\'enyi entropy to quantify the entanglement between the fields in the ground state of the linear $\sigma$ model. We adopt R\'enyi entropy because the failure…

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Entanglement entropy in topologically ordered matter phases has been computed extensively using various methods. In this paper, we study the entanglement entropy of topological phases in two-spaces from a new perspective---the perspective…

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We present a general method for calculating R\'enyi entropies in the ground state of a one-dimensional critical system with mixed open boundaries, for an interval starting at one of its ends. In the conformal field theory framework, this…

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Entropy is a fundamental concept in equilibrium statistical mechanics, yet its origin in the non-equilibrium dynamics of isolated quantum systems is not fully understood. A strong consensus is emerging around the idea that the stationary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-20 Vincenzo Alba , Pasquale Calabrese

A comprehensive investigation of the entanglement characteristics is carried out on tripartite spin-1/2 systems, examining prototypical tripartite states, the thermal Heisenberg model, and the transverse field Ising model. The entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Marwa Mannaï , Hisham Sati , Tim Byrnes , Chandrashekar Radhakrishnan

Computing entanglement entropy and its cousins is often challenging even in the simplest continuum and lattice models, partly because such entropies depend nontrivially on all geometric characteristics of the entangling region. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Mohammad F. Maghrebi

Entanglement entropy has been a powerful tool for analyzing phases and criticality in pure ground states via quantum Monte Carlo (QMC). However, mixed-state entanglement, relevant to systems with dissipation, finite temperature, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-17 Yi-Ming Ding , Yin Tang , Zhe Wang , Zhiyan Wang , Bin-Bin Mao , Zheng Yan

Entanglement is the key feature of many-body quantum systems, and the development of new tools to probe it in the laboratory is an outstanding challenge. Measuring the entropy of different partitions of a quantum system provides a way to…

R\'enyi entropies are conceptually valuable and experimentally relevant generalisations of the celebrated von Neumann entanglement entropy. After a quantum quench in a clean quantum many-body system they generically display a universal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-04 Bruno Bertini , Katja Klobas , Vincenzo Alba , Gianluca Lagnese , Pasquale Calabrese

Entanglement R\'enyi-$\alpha$ entropy is an entanglement measure. It generalizes the entanglement of formation, and they coincide when $\alpha$ tends to 1. We derive analytical lower and upper bounds for the entanglement R\'enyi-$\alpha$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-07 Wei Song , Lin Chen , Zhuo-Liang Cao

We construct upper bounds on entanglement entropies of many-body quantum states that have fixed energy expectation values with respect to geometrically local Hamiltonians. Our focus is on entanglement entropies of subsystems that make up…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Samuel J. Garratt , Dmitry A. Abanin

Entanglement entropy has become an important theoretical concept in condensed matter physics, because it provides a unique tool for characterizing quantum mechanical many-body phases and new kinds of quantum order. However, the experimental…

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We calculate the quantum Renyi entropy in a phase space representation for either fermions or bosons. This can also be used to calculate purity and fidelity, or the entanglement between two systems. We show that it is possible to calculate…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-28 Laura E. C. Rosales-Zárate , P. D. Drummond

We consider the entanglement entropy in critical one-dimensional quantum systems with open boundary conditions. We show that the second R\'enyi entropy of an interval away from the boundary can be computed exactly, provided the same…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Benoit Estienne , Yacine Ikhlef , Andrei Rotaru

We study the Renyi entanglement entropy of an interval in a periodic fermionic chain for a general eigenstate of a free, translational invariant Hamiltonian. In order to analytically compute the entropy we use two technical tools. The first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 F. Ares , J. G. Esteve , F. Falceto , E. Sánchez-Burillo

We introduce a systematic framework to calculate the bipartite entanglement entropy of a compact spatial subsystem in a one-dimensional quantum gas which can be mapped into a noninteracting fermion system. We show that when working with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 Pasquale Calabrese , Mihail Mintchev , Ettore Vicari

In recent years entanglement measures, such as the von Neumann and the R\'enyi entropies, provided a unique opportunity to access elusive feature of quantum many-body systems. However, extracting entanglement properties analytically,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-03 Vincenzo Alba

The R\'enyi entanglement entropy in quantum many-body systems can be viewed as the difference in free energy between partition functions with different trace topologies. We introduce an external field $\lambda$ that controls the partition…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-03-20 Jonathan D'Emidio

We characterize non-perturbatively the R\'enyi entropies of degree n=2,3,4, and 5 of three-dimensional, strongly coupled many-fermion systems in the scale-invariant regime of short interaction range and large scattering length, i.e. in the…

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