Entanglement Hamiltonian of the quantum Néel state

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2014/10/P10026zbMATH Open1456.81087arXiv1407.3830OpenAlexW2058946616MaRDI QIDQ3301758FDOQ3301758

Authors: Didier Poilblanc 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

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

Abstract: Two-dimensional Projected Entangled Pair States (PEPS) provide a unique framework giving access to detailed entanglement features of correlated (spin or electronic) systems. For a bi-partitioned quantum system, it has been argued that the Entanglement Spectrum (ES) is in a one-to-one correspondence with the physical edge spectrum on the cut and that the structure of the corresponding Entanglement Hamiltonian (EH) reflects closely bulk properties (finite correlation length, criticality, topological order, etc...). However, entanglement properties of systems with spontaneously broken continuous symmetry are still not fully understood. The spin-1/2 square lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet provides a simple example showing spontaneous breaking of SU(2) symmetry down to U(1). The ground state can be viewed as a "quantum N'eel state" where the classical (N'eel) staggered magnetization is reduced by quantum fluctuations. Here I consider the (critical) Resonating Valence Bond state doped with spinons to describe such a state, that enables to use the associated PEPS representation (with virtual bond dimension $D=3$) to compute the EH and the ES for a partition of an (infinite) cylinder. In particular, I find that the EH is (almost exactly) a chain of a dilute mixture of heavy ($downarrow$ spins) and light ($uparrow$ spins) hardcore bosons, where light particles are subject to long-range hoppings. The corresponding ES shows drastic differences with the typical ES obtained previously for ground states with restored SU(2)-symmetry (on finite systems).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.3830

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Cites Work

• Computational Complexity of Projected Entangled Pair States

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• Locality at the boundary implies gap in the bulk for 2D PEPS
• Entanglement spectrum degeneracy and the Cardy formula in \(1+1\) dimensional conformal field theories

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