Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2010-12-18
Quantum Inf. Comput. 11, 0326-0354 (2011)
Physics
Quantum Physics
Single column, 36 pages, 10 figures, 1 table, expansion of PRA 71, 060305 (R) (2005) with additional results; to appear in QIC
Scientific paper
The entanglement in quantum XY spin chains of arbitrary length is investigated via the geometric (measure of) entanglement. The emergence of entanglement is explained intuitively from the perspective of perturbations. The model is solved exactly and the energy spectrum is determined and analyzed in particular for the lowest two levels. The entanglement is obtained over the entire phase diagram, and its behavior can be used to delineate the boundaries in the phase diagram. For example, the field-derivative of the entanglement becomes singular along the critical line. The form of the divergence turns out to be dictated by the universality class controlling the quantum phase transition. The entanglement near criticality can be understood via a scaling hypothesis, analogous to that for free energies. The entanglement density vanishes along the so-called disorder line in the phase diagram, the ground space is doubly degenerate and spanned by two product states. The entanglement for the superposition of the lowest two states is also investigated. Even though the exact value of the entanglement depends on the specific form of superposition, in the thermodynamic limit the entanglement density is independent of the superposition, showing that the entanglement density is insensitive to whether the ground state is chosen to be the spontaneously $Z_2$ symmetry broken one or not. The finite-size scaling of entanglement at critical points is also investigated from two different view points: (1) the maximum in the field-derivative of the entanglement density vs. the system size, used to deduce the correlation length exponent for the Ising class by the behavior of entanglement; (2) the correction to the entanglement density vs. the system size, with the coefficient being universal (but with different values for the two lowest states).
Goldbart Paul M.
Vishveshwara Smitha
Wei Tzu-Chieh
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