Entanglement in quantum critical spin systems

Details Entanglement in quantum critical spin systems Entanglement in quantum critical spin systems

2004-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412056v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, 4 figures. Contributed paper to the MQC2 conference, Naples 2004

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We study the field dependence of the entanglement of formation in anisotropic S=1/2 antiferromagnetic chains and two-leg ladders displaying a T=0 field-driven quantum phase transition. The analysis is carried out via Quantum Monte Carlo simulations. At zero temperature the entanglement estimators show abrupt changes at and around criticality, vanishing below the critical field, in correspondence with an exactly factorized state, and then immediately recovering a finite value upon passing through the quantum phase transition. At the quantum critical point, a deep minimum in the pairwise-to-global entanglement ratio shows that multi-spin entanglement is strongly enhanced; moreover this signature represents a novel way of detecting the quantum phase transition of the system, relying entirely on entanglement estimators.

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