Out-of-equilibrium Correlated Systems : Bipartite Entanglement as a Probe of Thermalization

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2010-11-09

arxiv.org/abs/1011.2147v5

Phys. Rev. B 84, 045120 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

extended version: 15 pages, 9 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.84.045120

Thermalization play a central role in out-of-equilibrium physics of ultracold atoms or electronic transport phenomena. On the other hand, entanglement concepts have proven to be extremely useful to investigate quantum phases of matter. Here, it is argued that **bipartite** entanglement measures provide key information on out-of-equilibrium states and might therefore offer stringent thermalization criteria. This is illustrated by considering a global quench in an (extended) XXZ spin-1/2 chain across its (zero-temperature) quantum critical point. A non-local **bipartition** of the chain **preserving translation symmetry** is proposed. The time-evolution after the quench of the **reduced** density matrix of the half-system is computed and its associated (time-dependent) entanglement spectrum is analyzed. Generically, the corresponding entanglement entropy quickly reaches a "plateau" after a short transient regime. However, in the case of the integrable XXZ chain, the low-energy entanglement spectrum still reveals strong time-fluctuations. In addition, its infinite-time average shows strong deviations from the spectrum of a Boltzmann thermal density matrix. In contrast, when the integrability of the model is broken (by small next-nearest neighbor couplings), the entanglement spectra of the time-average and thermal density matrices become remarkably similar.

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