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In this paper, we investigate the second and third pseudo R\'enyi entanglement entropies (PREE) for a locally excited state $| \psi \rangle $ and its time evolution $| \phi \rangle = e^{- i H t} | \psi \rangle$ in a two-dimensional…
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