Supercritical entanglement in local systems: counterexample to the area law for quantum matter

DOI10.1073/PNAS.1605716113zbMATH Open1404.81049arXiv1408.1657OpenAlexW1591124829WikidataQ37450850 ScholiaQ37450850MaRDI QIDQ4646229FDOQ4646229

Authors: Ramis Movassagh, Peter W. Shor 

Publication date: 11 January 2019

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The sub-volume scaling of the entanglement entropy with the system's size, $n$, has been a subject of vigorous study in the last decade [1]. The area law provably holds for gapped one dimensional systems [2] and it was believed to be violated by at most a factor of $logleft(night)$ in physically reasonable models such as critical systems. In this paper, we generalize the spin$-1$ model of Bravyi et al [3] to all integer spin-$s$ chains, whereby we introduce a class of exactly solvable models that are physical and exhibit signatures of criticality, yet violate the area law by a power law. The proposed Hamiltonian is local and translationally invariant in the bulk. We prove that it is frustration free and has a unique ground state. Moreover, we prove that the energy gap scales as $n^{-c}$, where using the theory of Brownian excursions, we prove $cge2$. This rules out the possibility of these models being described by a conformal field theory. We analytically show that the Schmidt rank grows exponentially with $n$ and that the half-chain entanglement entropy to the leading order scales as $sqrtn$ (Eq. 16). Geometrically, the ground state is seen as a uniform superposition of all $s-$colored Motzkin walks. Lastly, we introduce an external field which allows us to remove the boundary terms yet retain the desired properties of the model. Our techniques for obtaining the asymptotic form of the entanglement entropy, the gap upper bound and the self-contained expositions of the combinatorial techniques, more akin to lattice paths, may be of independent interest.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.1657

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27)

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