Entanglement entropy of two disjoint intervals in c = 1 theories

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DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2011/06/P06012zbMATH Open1456.81346arXiv1103.3166OpenAlexW1972259464MaRDI QIDQ3301255FDOQ3301255

Pasquale Calabrese, Luca Tagliacozzo, Vincenzo Alba

Publication date: 11 August 2020

Published in: Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the scaling of the Renyi entanglement entropy of two disjoint blocks of critical lattice models described by conformal field theories with central charge c=1. We provide the analytic conformal field theory result for the second order Renyi entropy for a free boson compactified on an orbifold describing the scaling limit of the Ashkin-Teller (AT) model on the self-dual line. We have checked this prediction in cluster Monte Carlo simulations of the classical two dimensional AT model. We have also performed extensive numerical simulations of the anisotropic Heisenberg quantum spin-chain with tree-tensor network techniques that allowed to obtain the reduced density matrices of disjoint blocks of the spin-chain and to check the correctness of the predictions for Renyi and entanglement entropies from conformal field theory. In order to match these predictions, we have extrapolated the numerical results by properly taking into account the corrections induced by the finite length of the blocks to the leading scaling behavior.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3166




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