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Entanglement in Quantum Critical Phenomena
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Entanglement, one of the most intriguing features of quantum theory and a main resource in quantum information science, is expected to play a crucial role also in the study of quantum phase transitions, where it is responsible for the appearance of long-range correlations. We investigate, through a microscopic calculation, the scaling properties of entanglement in spin chain systems, both near and at a quantum critical point. Our results establish a precise connection between concepts of quantum information, condensed matter physics, and quantum field theory, by showing that the behavior of critical entanglement in spin systems is analogous to that of entropy in conformal field theories. We explore some of the implications of this connection.
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The paper computes block entanglement in XXZ and XY spin-1/2 chains near and at quantum critical points, finding logarithmic scaling at criticality and saturation in noncritical regimes. It connects critical spin-chain entanglement to conformal field theory entropy and argues entanglement decreases under renormalization group flow.
Key findings
- Noncritical entanglement either vanishes or grows monotonically with block size \(L\) and saturates at a length scale \(L_0\); critical entanglement diverges logarithmically with \(L\).
- For critical regimes, \(S_L = \frac{c+\bar c}{6}\log_2 L + k\), matching conformal field theory. Critical Ising/XY (\(\gamma \neq 0\)) has \(c=\bar c=1/2\), giving \(S_L \sim \log_2 L/6\); critical XX/XXZ has \(c=\bar c=1\), giving \(S_L \sim \log_2 L/3\).
- The paper reports numerical XXZ ground states for chains up to \(N=20\) spins and exact infinite-chain XY results, with Fig. 1 showing agreement between numerics and conformal predictions.
- It argues that critical entanglement has unboundedly growing support in the reduced density matrix, explaining why DMRG with a limited number of retained eigenvectors fails to reproduce quantum critical behavior.
Methods
- Entanglement is quantified by the von Neumann entropy \(S_L = -\mathrm{tr}\,\rho_L \log_2 \rho_L\) for a block of \(L\) contiguous spins in the ground state.
- XXZ model: Bethe ansatz plus numerical diagonalization for chains up to \(N=20\) spins. XY model: exact solution for an infinite chain using Majorana operators, Gaussian states, and a correlation matrix; \(S_L\) is computed by diagonalizing \(\Gamma_L\) and summing binary entropies of fermionic modes.
- Scaling behavior is compared with \(1+1\)-dimensional conformal field theory entropy formulas and with central charges of the relevant universality classes.
Limitations
- Stated: finite-\(N\) corrections to Eq. (6) are not discussed; the XXZ numerical analysis uses chains up to \(N=20\) spins.
- Stated: DMRG schemes retaining only a limited number of eigenvectors are expected to fail for critical \(S_L\) because the relevant support grows with \(L\).
- Evident from the text: the work is theoretical/numerical for specific spin-1/2 chains, with no experimental validation reported.
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“Such a computation determines the scaling laws of entanglement in one-dimensional spin systems, while explicitly uncovering an accurate correspondence between critical entanglement in condensed matter systems and the entropy of the vacuum in conformal field theories.”
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“Indeed, more generally we encounter that the support or number of relevant eigenvectors of L unboundedly grows with L.”
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“Correspondingly, already for a chain of N 20 spins it is possible to observe a distinct, characteristic behavior of S L depending on whether the values ; in Eq. ( 2) belong or not to a critical regime.”
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“For any L, the reduced density matrix L is effectively supported on just a small, bounded subspace of the Hilbert space of the L spins.”
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“In critical chains, on the contrary, the entropy S L diverges logarithmically with L.”
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“Instead, the entanglement of a block with a chain in a critical model displays a logarithmic divergence for large L: S L log 2 L=6 (stars) for the critical Ising chain, H XY a 1; 1; S L log 2 L=3 (triangles) for the critical XX chain with no magnetic field, H XY a 1; 0;”
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“On the other hand, entanglement is appointed to play a central role in the study of strongly correlated quantum systems [7][8][9], since a highly entangled ground state is at the heart of a large variety of collective quantum phenomena.”
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“If, as is the case in DMRG schemes, only a limited number of eigenvectors can be retained, then a local computation of L for sufficiently large L is bound to fail from the outset (arguably, even in an approximate sense).”
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“Entanglement, one of the most intriguing features of quantum theory and a main resource in quantum information science, is expected to play a crucial role also in the study of quantum phase transitions, where it is responsible for the appearance of long-range correlations.”
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“Ground-state entanglement is, most promisingly, also a key factor to the understanding of quantum phase transitions, where it is responsible for the appearance of long-range correlations at zero temperature [12].”
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“As derived in Ref. [25], in a 1 1 conformal field theory the entropy of a subregion of length L reads S L c c c 6 log 2 L k; (12”
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“The general picture emerging from the above computations is that there is a clear distinction between noncritical and critical entanglement, corresponding to two forms of structurally inequivalent ground states.”
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“Noncritical entanglement is characterized by a saturation of S L as a function of the block size L: noncritical Ising chain (empty squares), H XY a 1:1; 1; noncritical XXZ chain (filled squares), H XXZ 2:5; 0.”
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“The calculation of S L , as sketched next, also uses the fact that the ground state j g i of the chain and the density matrices L for blocks of spins are Gaussian states that can be completely characterized by means of certain correlation matrix of second moments.”
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“Their analysis, focused on single-spin entropies [12] and on two-spin quantum correlations [12,14], suggestively shows that these one-and two-spin entanglement measures display a peak either near or at the critical point.”
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“The XY model, Eq. ( 3), is an exactly solvable model (see for instance [13]) and this allows us to consider an infinite chain, N ! 1.”
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“It is noteworthy, then, that entanglement in spin systems decreases both under local operations and classical communication and along renormalization group trajectories.”
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“DMRG techniques have reportedly failed to reproduce quantum critical behavior [21] and we may, in view of the divergent character of S L , be in a position to understand why.”
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“These models consider a variety of spin-spin interactions between first neighbors as well as the effect of an external magnetic field along the z direction, and are used to described a large range of one-dimensional quantum systems [13].”
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The block entanglement entropy S_L as a function of block size L captures the large-scale behavior of quantum correlations at a critical regime.
“The motivation behind the present approach is straightforward: by considering the entanglement S L of a spin block as a function of its size L, and by characterizing it for large L, one expects to capture the large-scale behavior of quantum correlations at a critical regime.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Vidal, G., Latorre, J. I., Rico, E., & Kitaev, A.
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- Universitat de Barcelona (ES)
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2003-06-02
- Volume
- 90
- Issue
- 22
- Pages
- 227902-227902
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W1990516747
- Semantic Scholar
- 4dcee3be43c2d9b785f36939fd4cf4462639b375
- Cited by
- 2,793
- References
- 30
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- FWCI
- 59.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Dipòsit Digital de la Universitat de Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona) (publishedVersion)
- arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
- CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion)
- RECERCAT (Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Funders
- European Commission
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum many-body systems
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Nuclear and High Energy Physics › Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
- Keywords
- quantum entanglement, quantum critical point, quantum phase transitions, spin chains, entanglement scaling, long-range correlations, conformal field theory, entanglement entropy, quantum information
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