General entanglement scaling laws from time evolution

Details General entanglement scaling laws from time evolution General entanglement scaling laws from time evolution

2006-03-14

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0603114v4

Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150404 (2006)

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 1 figure (see also related work by S. Bravyi, M. Hastings, and F. Verstraete, quant-ph/0603121); replaced with final

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.150404

We establish a general scaling law for the entanglement of a large class of ground states and dynamically evolving states of quantum spin chains: we show that the geometric entropy of a distinguished block saturates, and hence follows an entanglement-boundary law. These results apply to any ground state of a gapped model resulting from dynamics generated by a local hamiltonian, as well as, dually, to states that are generated via a sudden quench of an interaction as recently studied in the case of dynamics of quantum phase transitions. We achieve these results by exploiting ideas from quantum information theory and making use of the powerful tools provided by Lieb-Robinson bounds. We also show that there exist noncritical fermionic systems and equivalent spin chains with rapidly decaying interactions whose geometric entropy scales logarithmically with block length. Implications for the classical simulatability are outlined.

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