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Reconstructing Entanglement Hamiltonian via Entanglement Eigenstates

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2019-06-12 v1 Other Condensed Matter Quantum Physics

Abstract

The entanglement Hamiltonian HEH_E, defined through the reduced density matrix of a subsystem ρA=exp(HE)\rho_A=\exp(-H_E), is an important concept in understanding the nature of quantum entanglement in many-body systems and quantum field theories. In this work, we explore a numerical scheme which explicitly reconstructs the entanglement Hamiltonian using one entangled mode (i.e., an eigenstate) of ρA\rho_A. We demonstrate and benchmark this scheme on quantum spin lattice models. The resulting HEH_E bears a form similar to a physical Hamiltonian with spatially varying couplings, which allows us to make quantitative comparison with perturbation theory and conformal field theory.

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@article{arxiv.1806.08060,
  title  = {Reconstructing Entanglement Hamiltonian via Entanglement Eigenstates},
  author = {W. Zhu and Zhoushen Huang and Yin-chen He},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.08060},
  year   = {2019}
}

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15 pages

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