Monday, August 6, 2012

1208.0735 (S. M. Giampaolo et al.)

Scaling of the Rényi entropies in gapped quantum spin systems:
Entanglement-driven order beyond symmetry breaking
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S. M. Giampaolo, S. Montangero, F. Dell'Anno, S. De Siena, F. Illuminati
We investigate the scaling of the R\'enyi $\alpha$-entropies in one-dimensional gapped quantum spin models. We show that the block entropies with $\alpha > 2$ violate the area law monotonicity and exhibit damped oscillations. Depending on the existence of a factorized ground state, the oscillatory behavior occurs either below factorization or it extends indefinitely. The anomalous scaling corresponds to an entanglement-driven order that is independent of ground-state degeneracy and is revealed by a nonlocal order parameter defined as the sum of the single-copy entanglement over all blocks.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0735

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