Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of entanglement Renyi entropies for generic quantum systems

Details Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of entanglement Renyi entropies for generic quantum systems Quantum Monte Carlo calculation of entanglement Renyi entropies for generic quantum systems

2012-03-26

arxiv.org/abs/1203.5752v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5+1 pages, 4+1 figures

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We present a general scheme for the calculation of the Renyi entropy of a subsystem in quantum many-body models that can be efficiently simulated via quantum Monte Carlo. When the simulation is performed at very low temperature, the above approach delivers the entanglement Renyi entropy of the subsystem, and it allows to explore the crossover to the thermal Renyi entropy as the temperature is increased. We implement this scheme explicitly within the Stochastic Series expansion as well as within path-integral Monte Carlo, and apply it to quantum spin and quantum rotor models. In the case of quantum spins, we show that relevant models in two dimensions with reduced symmetry (XX model or hardcore bosons, transverse-field Ising model at the quantum critical point) exhibit an area law for the scaling of the entanglement entropy.

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