Universal finite-size corrections of the entanglement entropy of quantum ladders and the entropic area law

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2014/10/P10034MaRDI QIDQ3301770zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 11 August 2020

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4849

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Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: We investigate the finite-size corrections of the entanglement entropy of critical ladders and propose a conjecture for its scaling behavior. The conjecture is verified for free fermions, Heisenberg and quantum Ising ladders. Our results support that the prefactor of the logarithmic correction of the entanglement entropy of critical ladder models is universal and it is associated with the central charge of the one-dimensional version of the models and with the number of branches associated with gapless excitations. Our results suggest that it is possible to infer whether there is a violation of the entropic area law in two-dimensional critical systems by analyzing the scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy of ladder systems, which are easier to deal.

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