PIRSA:13050051

Entanglement at strongly-interacting quantum critical points in 2+1D

Melko, R. (2013). Entanglement at strongly-interacting quantum critical points in 2+1D. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/13050051

Melko, Roger. Entanglement at strongly-interacting quantum critical points in 2+1D. Perimeter Institute, May. 10, 2013, https://pirsa.org/13050051 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:13050051,
            doi = {10.48660/13050051},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/13050051},
            author = {Melko, Roger},
            keywords = {Quantum Information},
            language = {en},
            title = {Entanglement at strongly-interacting quantum critical points in 2+1D},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2013},
            month = {may},
            note = {PIRSA:13050051 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Roger Melko University of Waterloo

Talk numberPIRSA:13050051
DOI10.48660/13050051
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Talk Type Conference
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Abstract

In two or more spatial dimensions, leading-order contributions to the scaling of entanglement entropy typically follow the "area" or boundary law.  Although this leading-order scaling is non-universal, at a quantum critical point (QCP), the sub-leading behavior does contain universal physics.  Different universal functions can be access through entangling regions of different geometries.  For example, for polygonal shaped regions, quantum field theories have demonstrated that the subleading scaling is logarithmic, with a universal coefficient dependent on the number of vertices in the polygon.  Although such universal quantities are routinely studied in non-interacting field theories, it often requires numerical simulation to access them in interacting theories.  In this talk, I discuss quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) and numerical Linked-Cluster Expansion (NLCE) calculations of the Renyi entropies at the transverse-field Ising model QCP on the 2D square lattice.  We calculate the universal coefficient of the vertex-induced logarithmic scaling term, and compare to non-interacting field theory calculations by Casini and Huerta. Also, we examine the shape dependence of the Renyi entropy for finite-size toroidal lattices with smooth boundaries. Such geometries provide a sensitive probe of the gapless wave function in the thermodynamic limit, and give new universal quantities that could be examined by future field-theoretical studies in 2+1D.