Entanglement evolution across a conformal interface

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AAB561MaRDI QIDQ4565122zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Xueda Wen, Shinsei Ryu, Yu-Xuan Wang

Publication date 8 June 2018

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.02126

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryquantum entanglementquantum quench

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Interface problems; diffusion-limited aggregation in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C24)

Abstract: For two dimensional conformal field theories in the ground state, it is known that a conformal interface along the entanglement cut can suppress the entanglement entropy from $S_{A}simclogL$ to $S_{A}sim{c}_{exteff}logL$, where $L$ is the length of the subsystem $A$, and $c_{exteff}in[0,c]$ is the effective central charge which depends on the transmission property of the conformal interface. In this work, by making use of conformal mappings, we show that a conformal interface has the same effect on entanglement evolution in non-equilibrium cases, including global, local and certain inhomogeneous quantum quenches. I.e., a conformal interface suppresses the time evolution of entanglement entropy by effectively replacing the central charge $c$ with $c_{exteff}$, where $c_{exteff}$ is exactly the same as that in the ground state case. We confirm this conclusion by a numerical study on a critical fermion chain. Furthermore, based on the quasi-particle picture, we conjecture that this conclusion holds for an arbitrary quantum quench in CFTs, as long as the initial state can be described by a regularized conformal boundary state.

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