Parity effects in the scaling of block entanglement in gapless spin chains

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Publication date 2010
Journal Physical Review Letters
Volume | Issue number 104 | 9
Pages (from-to) 095701
Number of pages 4
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Institute of Physics (IoP) - Institute for Theoretical Physics Amsterdam (ITFA)
Abstract We consider the Rényi α entropies for Luttinger liquids (LL). For large block lengths ℓ, these are known to grow like lnℓ. We show that there are subleading terms that oscillate with frequency 2kF (the Fermi wave number of the LL) and exhibit a universal power-law decay with ℓ. The new critical exponent is equal to K/(2α), where K is the LL parameter. We present numerical results for the anisotropic XXZ model and the full analytic solution for the free fermion (XX) point.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.095701
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