Entanglement versus gap for one-dimensional spin systems

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/12/2/025002zbMATH Open1360.81062arXiv0901.1108OpenAlexW1997094164MaRDI QIDQ2980752FDOQ2980752

M. B. Hastings, Daniel Gottesman

Publication date: 3 May 2017

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

Abstract: We study the relationship between entanglement and spectral gap for local Hamiltonians in one dimension. The area law for a one-dimensional system states that for the ground state, the entanglement of any interval is upper-bounded by a constant independent of the size of the interval. However, the possible dependence of the upper bound on the spectral gap Delta is not known, as the best known general upper bound is asymptotically much larger than the largest possible entropy of any model system previously constructed for small Delta. To help resolve this asymptotic behavior, we construct a family of one-dimensional local systems for which some intervals have entanglement entropy which is polynomial in 1/Delta, whereas previously studied systems, such as free fermion systems or systems described by conformal field theory, had the entropy of all intervals bounded by a constant times log(1/Delta).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.1108

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15)

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