Publication: A duality principle for the multi-block entanglement entropy of free fermion systems
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2017-09-11
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The analysis of the entanglement entropy of a subsystem of a one-dimensional quantum system is a powerful tool for unravelling its critical nature. For instance, the scaling behaviour of the entanglement entropy determines the central charge of the associated Virasoro algebra. For a free fermion system, the entanglement entropy depends essentially on two sets, namely the set A of sites of the subsystem considered and the set K of excited momentum modes. In this work we make use of a general duality principle establishing the invariance of the entanglement entropy under exchange of the sets A and K to tackle complex problems by studying their dual counterparts. The duality principle is also a key ingredient in the formulation of a novel conjecture for the asymptotic behavior of the entanglement entropy of a free fermion system in the general case in which both sets A and K consist of an arbitrary number of blocks. We have verified that this conjecture reproduces the numerical results with excellent precision for all the configurations analyzed. We have also applied the conjecture to deduce several asymptotic formulas for the mutual and r-partite information generalizing the known ones for the single block case.
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Tis work was partially supported by Spain’s MINECO under research grant no. FIS2015-63966-P. PT has been partly supported by the ICMAT Severo Ochoa project SEV-2015-0554 (MINECO, Spain). JAC would also like to acknowledge the fnancial support of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid through a 2015 predoctoral scholarship.