Fermionic logarithmic negativity in the Krawtchouk chain

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Main Authors: Blanchet, Gabrielle, Parez, Gilles, Vinet, Luc
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author Blanchet, Gabrielle
Parez, Gilles
Vinet, Luc
author_facet Blanchet, Gabrielle
Parez, Gilles
Vinet, Luc
contents The entanglement of non-complementary regions is investigated in an inhomogeneous free-fermion chain through the lens of the fermionic logarithmic negativity. Focus is on the Krawtchouk chain, whose relation to the eponymous orthogonal polynomials allows for exact diagonalization and analytical calculations of certain correlation functions. For adjacent regions, the negativity scaling corresponds to that of a conformal field theory with central charge $c=1$, in agreement with previous studies on bipartite entanglement in the Krawtchouk chain. For disjoint regions, we focus on the skeletal regime where each region reduces to a single site. This regime is sufficient to extract the leading behaviour at large distances. In the bulk, the negativity decays as $d^{-4 Δ_f}$ with $Δ_f=1/2$, where $d$ is the separation between the regions. This is in agreement with the homogeneous result of free Dirac fermions in one dimension. Surprisingly, when one site is close to the boundary, this exponent changes and depends on the parity of the boundary site $m=0,1,2,\dots$, with $Δ_f^{\textrm{even}}=3/8$ and $Δ_f^{\textrm{odd}}=5/8$. The results are supported by numerics and analytical calculations.
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spellingShingle Fermionic logarithmic negativity in the Krawtchouk chain
Blanchet, Gabrielle
Parez, Gilles
Vinet, Luc
Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Physics
The entanglement of non-complementary regions is investigated in an inhomogeneous free-fermion chain through the lens of the fermionic logarithmic negativity. Focus is on the Krawtchouk chain, whose relation to the eponymous orthogonal polynomials allows for exact diagonalization and analytical calculations of certain correlation functions. For adjacent regions, the negativity scaling corresponds to that of a conformal field theory with central charge $c=1$, in agreement with previous studies on bipartite entanglement in the Krawtchouk chain. For disjoint regions, we focus on the skeletal regime where each region reduces to a single site. This regime is sufficient to extract the leading behaviour at large distances. In the bulk, the negativity decays as $d^{-4 Δ_f}$ with $Δ_f=1/2$, where $d$ is the separation between the regions. This is in agreement with the homogeneous result of free Dirac fermions in one dimension. Surprisingly, when one site is close to the boundary, this exponent changes and depends on the parity of the boundary site $m=0,1,2,\dots$, with $Δ_f^{\textrm{even}}=3/8$ and $Δ_f^{\textrm{odd}}=5/8$. The results are supported by numerics and analytical calculations.
title Fermionic logarithmic negativity in the Krawtchouk chain
topic Statistical Mechanics
Strongly Correlated Electrons
Mathematical Physics
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.16531