Entanglement entropy in a boundary impurity model

Details Entanglement entropy in a boundary impurity model Entanglement entropy in a boundary impurity model

2004-08-16

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0408366v3

Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 266402 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

5 pages, 2 figures; to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.266402

Boundary impurities are known to dramatically alter certain bulk properties of 1+1 dimensional strongly correlated systems. The entanglement entropy of a zero temperature Luttinger liquid bisected by a single impurity is computed using a novel finite size scaling/bosonization scheme. For a Luttinger liquid of length 2L and UV cut off, e, the boundary impurity correction (\delta S) to the bulk logarithmic entanglement entropy (S_{ent} ~ ln(L/e)) scales as \delta S ~ y ln(L/e), where y is the renormalized impurity coupling constant. In this way, the bulk entanglement entropy within a region is related to scattering from the region's boundary. In the repulsive case (g<1), \delta S diverges (negatively) suggesting that the bulk entropy vanishes. Our results are consistent with the recent conjecture that entanglement entropy decreases irreversibly along renormalization group flow.

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