Violation of the entropic area law for Fermions

Details Violation of the entropic area law for Fermions Violation of the entropic area law for Fermions

2005-03-29

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0503219v4

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 010404 (2006)

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.010404

We investigate the scaling of the entanglement entropy in an infinite translational invariant Fermionic system of any spatial dimension. The states under consideration are ground states and excitations of tight-binding Hamiltonians with arbitrary interactions. We show that the entropy of a finite region typically scales with the area of the surface times a logarithmic correction. Thus, in contrast to analogous Bosonic systems, the entropic area law is violated for Fermions. The relation between the entanglement entropy and the structure of the Fermi surface is discussed, and it is proven, that the presented scaling law holds whenever the Fermi surface is finite. This is in particular true for all ground states of Hamiltonians with finite range interactions.

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