On reduced density matrices for disjoint subsystems
Statistical Mechanics
2015-05-14 v1
Abstract
We show that spin and fermion representations for solvable quantum chains lead in general to different reduced density matrices if the subsystem is not singly connected. We study the effect for two sites in XX and XY chains as well as for sublattices in XX and transverse Ising chains.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0910.5671,
title = {On reduced density matrices for disjoint subsystems},
author = {Ferenc Igloi and Ingo Peschel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.5671},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
10 pages, 4 figures