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二维量子临界点的纠缠:T=0投影量子Monte Carlo研究

Entanglement at a Two-Dimensional Quantum Critical Point: a T=0 Projector Quantum Monte Carlo Study

Stephen Inglis, Roger G. Melko

摘要:

虽然纠缠熵的首阶标度在量子临界点(QCP)是非普适的,但次首阶标度可以包含普适行为。这种普适量通常在非相互作用场论中进行研究,然而在相互作用场论中通常需要数值计算来访问它们。本文采用大规模T=0量子蒙特卡罗模拟,详细研究了2+1时空维横向场伊辛模型中QCP处纠缠区的第二雷尼熵--一个没有确切结果的不动点,用于纠缠熵的标度。我们计算了多边形纠缠子区域的顶点诱导对数标度的普适系数,并将结果与相互作用和非相互作用理论进行了比较。我们还研究了由光滑边界分成两个纠缠圆柱体的有限尺寸环形晶格的Rényi熵的形状依赖性。值得注意的是,我们发现,对圆柱体长度的依赖性遵循先前由Stephan { \it et al.} [New《物理学杂志》,15,015004,(2013)]在对应于2+1维量子Lifshitz自由标量场理论的QCP处。我们的数据与这个标度函数的拟合质量,以及由此产生的明显的截止无关系数,提供了诱人的证据,表明这个函数可能反映了2+1维系统中这些和其他非常不同的QCP的普遍行为。

英文摘要:

Although the leading-order scaling of entanglement entropy is non-universal at a quantum critical point (QCP), sub-leading scaling can contain universal behaviour. Such universal quantities are commonly studied in non-interacting field theories, however it typically requires numerical calculation to access them in interacting theories. In this paper, we use large-scale T=0 quantum Monte Carlo simulations to examine in detail the second Rényi entropy of entangled regions at the QCP in the transverse-field Ising model in 2+1 space-time dimensions -- a fixed point for which there is no exact result for the scaling of entanglement entropy. We calculate a universal coefficient of a vertex-induced logarithmic scaling for a polygonal entangled subregion, and compare the result to interacting and non-interacting theories. We also examine the shape-dependence of the Rényi entropy for finite-size toroidal lattices divided into two entangled cylinders by smooth boundaries. Remarkably, we find that the dependence on cylinder length follows a shape-dependent function calculated previously by Stephan {\it et al.} [New J. Phys., 15, 015004, (2013)] at the QCP corresponding to the 2+1 dimensional quantum Lifshitz free scalar field theory. The quality of the fit of our data to this scaling function, as well as the apparent cutoff-independent coefficient that results, presents tantalizing evidence that this function may reflect universal behaviour across these and other very disparate QCPs in 2+1 dimensional systems.

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