Entanglement entropy of aperiodic quantum spin chains

Details Entanglement entropy of aperiodic quantum spin chains Entanglement entropy of aperiodic quantum spin chains

2007-01-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0701527v2

Europhys. Lett. 79, 37001 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

6 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1209/0295-5075/79/37001

We study the entanglement entropy of blocks of contiguous spins in non-periodic (quasi-periodic or more generally aperiodic) critical Heisenberg, XX and quantum Ising spin chains, e.g. in Fibonacci chains. For marginal and relevant aperiodic modulations, the entanglement entropy is found to be a logarithmic function of the block size with log-periodic oscillations. The effective central charge, c_eff, defined through the constant in front of the logarithm may depend on the ratio of couplings and can even exceed the corresponding value in the homogeneous system. In the strong modulation limit, the ground state is constructed by a renormalization group method and the limiting value of c_eff is exactly calculated. Keeping the ratio of the block size and the system size constant, the entanglement entropy exhibits a scaling property, however, the corresponding scaling function may be nonanalytic.

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