Scaling of von Neumann entropy at the Anderson transition

DOI10.1142/S0217979210064629MaRDI QIDQ4929665zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Sudip Chakravarty

Publication date 23 September 2010

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0730

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brownian motion (60J65) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Statistical mechanics of metals (82D35)

Abstract: Extensive body of work has shown that for the model of a non-interacting electron in a random potential there is a quantum critical point for dimensions greater than two---a metal-insulator transition. This model also plays an important role in the plateau-to-plateu transition in the integer quantum Hall effect, which is also correctly captured by a scaling theory. Yet, in neither of these cases the ground state energy shows any non-analyticity as a function of a suitable tuning parameter, typically considered to be a hallmark of a quantum phase transition, similar to the non-analyticity of the free energy in a classical phase transition. Here we show that von Neumann entropy (entanglement entropy) is non-analytic at these phase transitions and can track the fundamental changes in the internal correlations of the ground state wave function. In particular, it summarizes the spatially wildly fluctuating intensities of the wave function close to the criticality of the Anderson transition. It is likely that all quantum phase transitions can be similarly described.

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