Entanglement critical length at the many-body localization transition

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/AA9338zbMATH Open1457.82186arXiv1610.09316OpenAlexW3100386029MaRDI QIDQ3302872FDOQ3302872

Authors: Francesca Pietracaprina, Angelo Mariano, A. Scardicchio, G. Parisi, Saverio Pascazio 

Publication date: 11 August 2020

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

Abstract: We study the details of the distribution of the entanglement spectrum (eigenvalues of the reduced density matrix) of a disordered spin chain exhibiting a many-body localization (MBL) transition. In the thermalizing region we identify the evolution under increasing system size of the eigenvalues distribution function, whose thermodynamic limit is close (but possibly different from) the Marchenko-Pastur distribution. From the analysis we extract a correlation length $L_s(h)$ determining the minimum system size to enter the asymptotic region. We find that $L_s(h)$ diverges at the MBL transition. We discuss the nature of the subleading corrections to the entanglement spectrum distribution and to the entanglement entropy.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.09316

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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