扭结激发的纠缠内容
Entanglement content of kink excitations
AI总结:
本研究探讨一维量子系统有序相中扭结激发的纠缠熵,通过自旋1/2链计算及场论框架分析,得到激发态与基态熵差的普适预测,并讨论Kramers-Wannier对偶性在纠缠层面的反直觉结果。
摘要:
处于有序相的一维量子系统在其对称破缺真空之上允许扭结作为基本激发。虽然扭结的散射特性类似于准粒子,但它们具有独特的局域性特征,这在其纠缠内容中很明显。在这项工作中,我们研究了扭结激发的纠缠熵。首先,我们对自旋1/2链的特定状态进行了详细计算,以突出这些激发的显著特征。其次,我们基于扭场与激发相关的半局域场之间的代数关系提供了一个场论框架,并在该框架中计算了Rényi熵。我们得到了具有有限数量扭结的激发态与对称破缺基态之间熵差的普适预测,该预测在大区域极限下不依赖于模型的微观细节。最后,我们讨论了Kramers-Wannier对偶性的一些结果,该对偶性将伊辛模型的有序相和无序相联系起来,并解释了为什么在纠缠层面上反直觉地未发现这些相之间的明确关系。
英文摘要:
Quantum one-dimensional systems in their ordered phase admit kinks as elementary excitations above their symmetry-broken vacua. While the scattering properties of the kinks resemble those of quasiparticles, they have distinct locality features that are manifest in their entanglement content. In this work, we study the entanglement entropy of kink excitations. We first present detailed calculations for specific states of a spin-1/2 chain to highlight the salient features of these excitations. Second, we provide a field-theoretic framework based on the algebraic relations between the twist fields and the semilocal fields associated with the excitations, and we compute the Rényi entropies in this framework. We obtain universal predictions for the entropy difference between the excited states with a finite number of kinks and the symmetry-broken ground states, which do not depend on the microscopic details of the model in the limit of large regions. Finally, we discuss some consequences of the Kramers-Wannier duality, which relates the ordered and disordered phases of the Ising model, and we explain why, counterintuitively, no explicit relations between those phases are found at the level of entanglement.
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