Asymptotic growth of the local ground-state entropy of the ideal Fermi gas in a constant magnetic field

DOI10.1007/S00220-020-03907-WzbMATH Open1456.82212arXiv2007.06316OpenAlexW3115397624MaRDI QIDQ2223736FDOQ2223736

Authors: Hajo Leschke, A. V. Sobolev, Wolfgang Spitzer 

Publication date: 1 February 2021

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider the ideal Fermi gas of indistinguishable particles without spin but with electric charge, confined to a Euclidean plane $mathbb{R}^2$ perpendicular to an external constant magnetic field of strength $B>0$. We assume this (infinite) quantum gas to be in thermal equilibrium at zero temperature, that is, in its ground state with chemical potential $mugeB$ (in suitable physical units). For this (pure) state we define its local entropy $S(Lambda)$ associated with a bounded (sub)region $Lambdasubsetmathbb{R}^2$ as the von Neumann entropy of the (mixed) local substate obtained by reducing the infinite-area ground state to this region $Lambda$ of finite area $|Lambda|$. In this setting we prove that the leading asymptotic growth of $S(LLambda)$, as the dimensionless scaling parameter $L>0$ tends to infinity, has the form $LsqrtB|partialLambda|$ up to a precisely given (positive multiplicative) coefficient which is independent of $Lambda$ and dependent on $B$ and $mu$ only through the integer part of $(mu/B-1)/2$. Here we have assumed the boundary curve $partialLambda$ of $Lambda$ to be sufficiently smooth which, in particular, ensures that its arc length $|partialLambda|$ is well-defined. This result is in agreement with a so-called area-law scaling (for two spatial dimensions). It contrasts the zero-field case $B=0$, where an additional logarithmic factor $ln(L)$ is known to be present. We also have a similar result, with a slightly more explicit coefficient, for the simpler situation where the underlying single-particle Hamiltonian, known as the Landau Hamiltonian, is restricted from its natural Hilbert space $ext{L}^2(mathbb{R}^2)$ to the eigenspace of a single but arbitrary Landau level. Both results extend to the whole one-parameter family of quantum R'enyi entropies.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.06316

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zbMATH Keywords

magnetic fieldelectric chargeideal Fermi gas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Continuum models (systems of particles, etc.) arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B21) Statistical mechanics of gases (82D05) Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials (82D40) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74)

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