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| author | Liu, Dong-Xu Ding, Yi-Ming Wang, Zhe Yan, Zheng |
| author_facet | Liu, Dong-Xu Ding, Yi-Ming Wang, Zhe Yan, Zheng |
| contents | The fate of quantum entanglement at finite-temperature phase transitions remains an open question, particularly for continuous symmetry breaking where zero-temperature Goldstone modes generate long-range correlations. Using large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the third Rényi negativity across the O(3) transition in the three-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet. The first such study for a thermal critical point with continuous symmetry. We uncover two fundamental results. First, the negativity exhibits a pure area law at the critical point, with the subleading constant term vanishing within statistical uncertainty. This demonstrates that thermal fluctuations completely destroy the long-range entanglement present at zero temperature. The divergent classical correlation length leaves no imprint on quantum entanglement itself. Second, despite this absence of singular behavior in the negativity, its temperature derivative follows the exact scaling of the specific heat, yielding critical exponents -α/ν=0.190(1) and 1/ν=1.350(5) in precise agreement with the O(3) universality class. Our work establishes that while quantum entanglement is blind to thermal criticality, its thermodynamic derivatives encode the full universal scaling, revealing an unexpected connection between entanglement and classical phase transitions. Furthermore, this also provides further evidence that Rényi negativity can still effectively shield classical correlations in systems with continuous symmetry. |
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| spellingShingle | Entanglement Rényi Negativity across the Finite-Temperature Transition in the O(3) Universality Class Liu, Dong-Xu Ding, Yi-Ming Wang, Zhe Yan, Zheng Strongly Correlated Electrons The fate of quantum entanglement at finite-temperature phase transitions remains an open question, particularly for continuous symmetry breaking where zero-temperature Goldstone modes generate long-range correlations. Using large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations, we investigate the third Rényi negativity across the O(3) transition in the three-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnet. The first such study for a thermal critical point with continuous symmetry. We uncover two fundamental results. First, the negativity exhibits a pure area law at the critical point, with the subleading constant term vanishing within statistical uncertainty. This demonstrates that thermal fluctuations completely destroy the long-range entanglement present at zero temperature. The divergent classical correlation length leaves no imprint on quantum entanglement itself. Second, despite this absence of singular behavior in the negativity, its temperature derivative follows the exact scaling of the specific heat, yielding critical exponents -α/ν=0.190(1) and 1/ν=1.350(5) in precise agreement with the O(3) universality class. Our work establishes that while quantum entanglement is blind to thermal criticality, its thermodynamic derivatives encode the full universal scaling, revealing an unexpected connection between entanglement and classical phase transitions. Furthermore, this also provides further evidence that Rényi negativity can still effectively shield classical correlations in systems with continuous symmetry. |
| title | Entanglement Rényi Negativity across the Finite-Temperature Transition in the O(3) Universality Class |
| topic | Strongly Correlated Electrons |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.13711 |