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Generalized entanglement entropy in new spin chains

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Abstract

Motzkin and Fredkin spin chains are new spin chain models exhibiting extraordinary amount of entanglement entropy scaling as a square root of the volume in spite of local interactions. This is a distinguished feature of the models from other spin chains with entanglement of at most logarithmic scaling. We first compute generalized entanglement entropy, called as the Rényi entropy, of these models. The Rényi entropy has further importance, since it can provide the whole spectrum of an entangled subsystem. We find non-analytic behavior of the Rényi entropy that can be regarded as a phase transition never seen in any other spin chain investigated so far. This new phase transition indicates unique and rich structures of the entanglement spectrum.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpringer Proceedings in Physics
PublisherSpringer
Pages109-129
Number of pages21
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020

Publication series

NameSpringer Proceedings in Physics
Volume239

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