The absence of the selfaveraging property of the entanglement entropy of disordered free fermions in one dimension

DOI10.1007/S10955-017-1929-1zbMATH Open1390.82017arXiv1703.06054OpenAlexW2602671154MaRDI QIDQ1747693FDOQ1747693

Authors: Xianqiang Yang 

Publication date: 26 April 2018

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the macroscopic system of free lattice fermions in one dimensions assuming that the one-body Hamiltonian of the system is the one dimensional discrete Schr"odinger operator with independent identically distributed random potential. We show that the variance of the entanglement entropy of the segment $[-M,M]$ of the system is bounded away from zero as $\mathrm{\%}Mightarrowinfty$. This manifests the absence of the selfaveraging property of the entanglement entropy in our model, meaning that in the one-dimensional case the complete description of the entanglement entropy is provided by its whole probability distribution. This also may be contrasted the case of dimension two or more, where the variance of the entanglement entropy per unit surface area vanishes as $Mightarrowinfty$ cite{El-Co:17}, thereby guaranteing the representativity of its mean for large $M$ in the multidimensional case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.06054

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zbMATH Keywords

Anderson localizationentanglement entropyfree fermions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Schrödinger operator, Schrödinger equation (35J10) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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