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My previous work [arXiv:1902.00977] studied the dynamics of R\'enyi entanglement entropy $R_\alpha$ in local quantum circuits with charge conservation. Initializing the system in a random product state, it was proved that $R_\alpha$ with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-21 Yichen Huang

We investigate the steady-state R\'enyi entanglement entropies after a quench from a piecewise homogeneous initial state in integrable models. In the quench protocol two macroscopically different chains (leads) are joined together at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-12 Vincenzo Alba

We investigate the holographic entanglement entropy (HEE) of a strip geometry in four dimensional Q-lattice backgrounds, which exhibit metal-insulator transitions in the dual field theory. Remarkably, we find that the HEE always displays a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-26 Yi Ling , Peng Liu , Chao Niu , Jian-Pin Wu , Zhuo-Yu Xian

The island paradigm for the fine-grained entropy of Hawking radiation is applied to eternal charged accelerating black holes. In the absence of the island, the entanglement entropy grows linearly and divergent at late times, while once the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-04 Ming-Hui Yu , Xian-Hui Ge , Cheng-Yuan Lu

Density-matrix topology, defined through the geometric property of the relevant modular Hamiltonian, can undergo transitions in the corresponding open-system dynamics. While symmetry considerations are crucial to ensure such a dynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Wenzhi Wang , Wei Yi

In the expanding universe, two interacting fields are no longer in thermal contact when the interaction rate becomes smaller than the Hubble expansion rate. After decoupling, two subsystems are usually treated separately in accordance with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-20 Yuichiro Nakai , Noburo Shiba , Masaki Yamada

Monitored quantum circuits can exhibit an entanglement transition as a function of the rate of measurements, stemming from the competition between scrambling unitary dynamics and disentangling projective measurements. We study how…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-10-11 Utkarsh Agrawal , Aidan Zabalo , Kun Chen , Justin H. Wilson , Andrew C. Potter , J. H. Pixley , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

We consider the dynamics of a system coupled to a thermal bath, going beyond the standard two-level system through the addition of an energy excitation degree of freedom. Further extensions are to systems containing many fermions, with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Nicole F. Bell , R. F. Sawyer , Raymond R. Volkas

The quantum extremal island rule allows us to compute the Page curves of Hawking radiation in semi-classical gravity. In this work, we study the connection between these calculations and the thermalisation of chaotic quantum many-body…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-20 Hanzhi Jiang , Mike Blake , Anthony P. Thompson

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

We study properties of steady states (states with time-independent density operators) of systems of coupled harmonic oscillators. Formulas are derived showing how adiabatic change of the Hamiltonian transforms one steady state into another.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Max Tegmark , Leehwa Yeh

In order to study the pseudo entropy of time-like subregions holographically, the previous smooth space-like extremal surface was recently generalized to mix space-like and time-like segments and the area becomes complex value. This paper…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-06 Ze Li , Zi-Qing Xiao , Run-Qiu Yang

We study the melting of a domain wall in the quantum simple exclusion process with all-to-all hoppings (a.k.a. the charged SYK$_2$ model). We show that the real-time dynamics of physical quantities of interest can be obtained exploiting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-01 Denis Bernard , Lorenzo Piroli , Stefano Scopa

We consider a situation where an $N$-level system (NLS) is coupled to a heat bath without being necessarily thermalized. For this situation we derive general Jarzinski-type equations and conclude that heat and entropy is flowing from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt , Jürgen Schnack , Jochen Gemmer

We study the entanglement dynamics generated by quantum quenches in the quantum cellular automaton Rule $54$. We consider the evolution from a recently introduced class of solvable initial states. States in this class relax (locally) to a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-22 Katja Klobas , Bruno Bertini

By applying the island rule proposed recently, we compute the entanglement entropy of Hawking radiation and study the Page curve for the eternal black holes in massive gravity. We investigate for both the neutral and charged black holes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-18 Cao H. Nam

We study the quench dynamics of entanglement spectra in the Kitaev chain with variable-range pairing quantified by power-law decay rate $\alpha$. Considering the post-quench Hamiltonians with flat bands, we demonstrate that the presence of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-07-23 Kaixiang Su , Zheng-Hang Sun , Heng Fan

The entanglement properties of the phase transition in a two dimensional harmonic lattice, similar to the one observed in recent ion trap experiments, are discussed both, for finite number of particles and thermodynamical limit. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Elisabeth Rieper , Janet Anders , Vlatko Vedral

The entanglement properties of random quantum states or dynamics are important to the study of a broad spectrum of disciplines of physics, ranging from quantum information to high energy and many-body physics. This work investigates the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 Zi-Wen Liu , Seth Lloyd , Elton Yechao Zhu , Huangjun Zhu