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Imbalance entanglement: Symmetry decomposition of negativity

04 Sep 2018-Physical Review A (American Physical Society (APS))-Vol. 98, Iss: 3, pp 032302
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the decomposability of negativity, a measure of entanglement between two parts of a generally open system in a mixed state, and found that negativity of two subsystems may be decomposed into contributions associated with their charge imbalance.
Abstract: In the presence of symmetry, entanglement measures of quantum many-body states can be decomposed into contributions from distinct symmetry sectors. Here we investigate the decomposability of negativity, a measure of entanglement between two parts of a generally open system in a mixed state. While the entanglement entropy of a subsystem within a closed system can be resolved according to its total preserved charge, we find that negativity of two subsystems may be decomposed into contributions associated with their charge imbalance. We show that this charge-imbalance decomposition of the negativity may be measured by employing existing techniques based on creation and manipulation of many-body twin or triple states in cold atomic setups. Next, using a geometrical construction in terms of an Aharonov-Bohm-like flux inserted in a Riemann geometry, we compute this decomposed negativity in critical one-dimensional systems described by conformal field theory. We show that it shares the same distribution as the charge-imbalance between the two subsystems. We numerically confirm our field theory results via exact calculations for noninteracting particles based on a double-Gaussian representation of the partially transposed density matrix.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the symmetry resolved Renyi entropies in the one-dimensional tight binding model, equivalent to the spin-1/2 XX chain in a magnetic field, were investigated.
Abstract: We consider the symmetry resolved Renyi entropies in the one dimensional tight binding model, equivalent to the spin-1/2 XX chain in a magnetic field. We exploit the generalised Fisher-Hartwig conjecture to obtain the asymptotic behaviour of the entanglement entropies with a flux charge insertion at leading and subleading orders. The o(1) contributions are found to exhibit a rich structure of oscillatory behaviour. We then use these results to extract the symmetry resolved entanglement, determining exactly all the non-universal constants and logarithmic corrections to the scaling that are not accessible to the field theory approach. We also discuss how our results are generalised to a one-dimensional free fermi gas.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply field theory to the time evolution of charge-resolved contributions to the entanglement entropy and negativity after a local quantum quench, and find that the known dependence of the total entropy on time after a quench results from significant charge sectors, each of which contributes to the entropy.
Abstract: Quantum entanglement and its main quantitative measures, the entanglement entropy and entanglement negativity, play a central role in many-body physics. An interesting twist arises when the system considered has symmetries leading to conserved quantities: Recent studies introduced a way to define, represent in field theory, calculate for $1+1\mathrm{D}$ conformal systems, and measure, the contribution of individual charge sectors to the entanglement measures between different parts of a system in its ground state. In this paper, we apply these ideas to the time evolution of the charge-resolved contributions to the entanglement entropy and negativity after a local quantum quench. We employ conformal field-theory techniques and find that the known dependence of the total entanglement on time after a quench ${S}_{A}\ensuremath{\sim}ln(t)$, results from $\ensuremath{\sim}\sqrt{ln(t)}$ significant charge sectors, each of which contributes $\ensuremath{\sim}\sqrt{ln(t)}$ to the entropy. We compare our calculations to numerical results obtained by the time-dependent density matrix renormalization-group algorithm and exact solution in the noninteracting limit, finding good agreement between all these methods.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors extended this equipartition theorem to disordered critical systems by studying the random singlet phase and analyzed the disorder averaged symmetry resolved Renyi entropies and showed the leading orders are independent of the symmetry sector.
Abstract: The reduced density matrix of many-body systems possessing an additive conserved quantity can be decomposed in orthogonal sectors which can be independently analyzed. Recently, these have been proven to equally contribute to entanglement entropy for one-dimensional conformal and integrable systems. In this paper, we extend this equipartition theorem to the disordered critical systems by studying the random singlet phase. We analytically compute the disorder averaged symmetry resolved Renyi entropies and show the leading orders are independent of the symmetry sector. Our findings are cross-checked with simulations within the numerical strong disorder renormalization group. We also identify the first subleading term breaking equipartition which is of the form s2/ln l where s is the magnetization of a subsystem of length l.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the Fourier transform of the entanglement entropy in a quantum many-body system has been studied in terms of a semiclassical picture of moving quasiparticles spreading the entagglement throughout the system.
Abstract: The time evolution of the entanglement entropy is a key concept to understand the structure of a nonequilibrium quantum state. In a large class of models, such evolution can be understood in terms of a semiclassical picture of moving quasiparticles spreading the entanglement throughout the system. However, it is not yet known how the entanglement splits between the sectors of an internal local symmetry of a quantum many-body system. Here, guided by the examples of conformal field theories and free-fermion chains, we show that the quasiparticle picture can be adapted to this goal, leading to a general conjecture for the charged entropies whose Fourier transform gives the desired symmetry-resolved entanglement ${S}_{n}(q)$. We point out two physically relevant effects that should be easily observed in atomic experiments: a delay time for the onset of ${S}_{n}(q)$ which grows linearly with $|\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}q|$ (the difference between the charge $q$ and its mean value) and an effective equipartition when $|\mathrm{\ensuremath{\Delta}}q|$ is much smaller than the subsystem size.

86 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the Fourier transform of the charged moments gives the desired symmetry resolved entropies for CFT with U(1) symmetry, as in the ground state, but with sub-leading terms that break it.
Abstract: We report a throughout analysis of the entanglement entropies related to different symmetry sectors in the low-lying primary excited states of a conformal field theory (CFT) with an internal U(1) symmetry. Our findings extend recent results for the ground state. We derive a general expression for the charged moments, i.e. the generalised cumulant generating function, which can be written in terms of correlation functions of the operator that define the state through the CFT operator-state correspondence. We provide explicit analytic computations for the compact boson CFT (aka Luttinger liquid) for the vertex and derivative excitations. The Fourier transform of the charged moments gives the desired symmetry resolved entropies. At the leading order, they satisfy entanglement equipartition, as in the ground state, but we find, within CFT, subleading terms that break it. Our analytical findings are checked against free fermions calculations on a lattice, finding excellent agreement. As a byproduct, we have exact results for the full counting statistics of the U(1) charge in the considered excited states.

80 citations

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