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# Quantum Monte Carlo detection of SU(2) symmetry breaking in the participation entropies of line subsystems

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### Abstract

Using quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we compute the participation (Shannon-Rényi) entropies for groundstate wave functions of Heisenberg antiferromagnets for one-dimensional (line) subsystems of length L embedded in two-dimensional ( L\times L ) square lattices. We also study the line entropy at finite temperature, i.e. of the diagonal elements of the density matrix, for three-dimensional ( L\times L\times L ) cubic lattices. The breaking of SU(2) symmetry is clearly captured by a universal logarithmic scaling term l_q\ln L in the Rényi entropies, in good agreement with the recent field-theory results of Misguish, Pasquier and Oshikawa . We also study the dependence of the log prefactor l_q on the Rényi index q for which a transition is detected at q_c\simeq 1 .

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Physical interactions in quantum many-body systems are typically local: Individual constituents interact mainly with their few nearest neighbors. This locality of interactions is inherited by a decay of correlation functions, but also reflected by scaling laws of a quite profound quantity: The entanglement entropy of ground states. This entropy of the reduced state of a subregion often merely grows like the boundary area of the subregion, and not like its volume, in sharp contrast with an expected extensive behavior. Such "area laws" for the entanglement entropy and related quantities have received considerable attention in recent years. They emerge in several seemingly unrelated fields, in the context of black hole physics, quantum information science, and quantum many-body physics where they have important implications on the numerical simulation of lattice models. In this Colloquium we review the current status of area laws in these fields. Center stage is taken by rigorous results on lattice models in one and higher spatial dimensions. The differences and similarities between bosonic and fermionic models are stressed, area laws are related to the velocity of information propagation, and disordered systems, non-equilibrium situations, classical correlation concepts, and topological entanglement entropies are discussed. A significant proportion of the article is devoted to the quantitative connection between the entanglement content of states and the possibility of their efficient numerical simulation. We discuss matrix-product states, higher-dimensional analogues, and states from entanglement renormalization and conclude by highlighting the implications of area laws on quantifying the effective degrees of freedom that need to be considered in simulations.
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### Entanglement entropy and conformal field theory

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We review the conformal field theory approach to entanglement entropy. We show how to apply these methods to the calculation of the entanglement entropy of a single interval, and the generalization to different situations such as finite size, systems with boundaries, and the case of several disjoint intervals. We discuss the behaviour away from the critical point and the spectrum of the reduced density matrix. Quantum quenches, as paradigms of non-equilibrium situations, are also considered.
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### Author and article information

###### Journal
SciPost Physics
SciPost Phys.
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2542-4653
2017
March 24 2017
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###### Affiliations
[1 ]University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
[2 ]French National Centre for Scientific Research
[3 ]University of Toulouse
10.21468/SciPostPhys.2.2.011

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Physics