Entanglement of inhomogeneous free fermions on hyperplane lattices

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2022.115975arXiv2206.06509MaRDI QIDQ6401976FDOQ6401976

Authors: Pierre-Antoine Bernard, N. Crampe, Rafael I. Nepomechie, Gilles Parez, L. Poulain d'Andecy, Luc Vinet 

Publication date: 13 June 2022

Abstract: We introduce an inhomogeneous model of free fermions on a $(D-1)$-dimensional lattice with $D(D-1)/2$ continuous parameters that control the hopping strength between adjacent sites. We solve this model exactly, and find that the eigenfunctions are given by multidimensional generalizations of Krawtchouk polynomials. We construct a Heun operator that commutes with the chopped correlation matrix, and compute the entanglement entropy numerically for $D=2,3,4$, for a wide range of parameters. For $D=2$, we observe oscillations in the sub-leading contribution to the entanglement entropy, for which we conjecture an exact expression. For $D>2$, we find logarithmic violations of the area law for the entanglement entropy with nontrivial dependence on the parameters.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Quantum mechanics on special spaces: manifolds, fractals, graphs, lattices (81Q35) Inhomogeneous linear forms (11J20) Polynomial solutions to PDEs (35C11) Fermionic systems in quantum theory (81V74) Entanglement measures, concurrencies, separability criteria (81P42)

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