Increasing of entanglement entropy from pure to random quantum critical chains

Details Increasing of entanglement entropy from pure to random quantum critical chains Increasing of entanglement entropy from pure to random quantum critical chains

2006-02-22

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0602527v2

J. Stat. Mech. (2006) L06002

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

4 pages, 2 eps figures, added references

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-5468/2006/06/L06002

It is known that the entropy of a block of spins of size $L$ embedded in an infinite pure critical spin chain diverges as the logarithm of $L$ with a prefactor fixed by the central charge of the corresponding conformal field theory. For a class of strongly random spin chains, it has been shown that the correspondent block entropy still remains universal and diverges logarithmically with an "effective" central charge. By computing the entanglement entropy for a family of models which includes the $N$-states random Potts chain and the $Z_N$ clock model, we give some definitive answer to some recent conjectures about the behaviour of the effective central charge. In particular, we show that the ratio between the entanglement entropy in the pure and in the disordered system is model dependent and we provide a series of critical models where the entanglement entropy grows from the pure to the random case.

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