More on the rainbow chain: entanglement, space-time geometry and thermal states

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AA6268MaRDI QIDQ5267833zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giovanni Ramírez, Pasquale Calabrese, J. Rodriguez-Laguna, J. Dubail, Germán Sierra

Publication date 13 June 2017

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.08559

zbMATH Keywords

conformal field theoryentanglementquantum fields on curved spacetime

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20)

Abstract: The rainbow chain is an inhomogenous exactly solvable local spin model that, in its ground state, displays a half-chain entanglement entropy growing linearly with the system size. Although many exact results about the rainbow chain are known, the structure of the underlying quantum field theory has not yet been unraveled. Here we show that the universal scaling features of this model are captured by a massless Dirac fermion in a curved space-time with constant negative curvature $R=-h^2$ ($h$ is the amplitude of the inhomogeneity). This identification allows us to use recently developed techniques to study inhomogeneous conformal systems and to analytically characterise the entanglement entropies of more general bipartitions. These results are carefully tested against exact numerical calculations. Finally, we study the entanglement entropies of the rainbow chain in thermal states, and find that there is a non-trivial interplay between the rainbow effective temperature $T_R$ and the physical temperature $T$.

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