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We study the momentum space entanglement spectra of bosonic and fermionic formulations of the spin-1/2 XXZ chain with analytical methods and exact diagonalization. We investigate the behavior of the entanglement gaps, present in both partitions, across quantum phase transitions in the XXZ chain. In both cases, finite size scaling reveals that the entanglement gap closure does not occur at the physical transition points. For bosons, we find that the entanglement gap observed in [Thomale et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 116805 (2010)] depends on the scaling dimension of the conformal field theory as varied by the XXZ anisotropy. For fermions, the infinite entanglement gap present at the XX point persists well past the phase transition at the Heisenberg point. We elaborate on how these shifted transition points in the entanglement spectra may in fact support the numerical study of physical transitions in the momentum space density matrix renormalization group.
We introduce a family of inhomogeneous XX spin chains whose squared couplings are a polynomial of degree at most four in the site index. We show how to obtain an asymptotic approximation for the Renyi entanglement entropy of all such chains in a constant magnetic field at half filling by exploiting their connection with the conformal field theory of a massless Dirac fermion in a suitably curved static background. We study the above approximation for three particular chains in the family, two of them related to well-known quasi-exactly solvable quantum models on the line and the third one to classical Krawtchouk polynomials, finding an excellent agreement with the exact value obtained numerically when the Renyi parameter $alpha$ is less than one. When $alphage1$ we find parity oscillations, as expected from the homogeneous case, and show that they are very accurately reproduced by a modification of the Fagotti-Calabrese formula. We have also analyzed the asymptotic behavior of the Renyi entanglement entropy in the non-standard situation of arbitrary filling and/or inhomogeneous magnetic field. Our numerical results show that in this case a block of spins at each end of the chain becomes disentangled from the rest. Moreover, the asymptotic approximation for the case of half filling and constant magnetic field, when suitably rescaled to the region of non-vanishing entropy, provides a rough approximation to the entanglement entropy also in this general case.
We study the spectrum of the long-range supersymmetric su$(m)$ $t$-$J$ model of Kuramoto and Yokoyama in the presence of an external magnetic field and a charge chemical potential. To this end, we first establish the precise equivalence of a large class of models of this type to a family of su$(1|m)$ spin chains with long-range exchange interactions and a suitable chemical potential term. We exploit this equivalence to compute in closed form the partition function of the long-range $t$-$J$ model, which we then relate to that of an inhomogeneous vertex model with simple interactions. From the structure of this partition function we are able to deduce an exact formula for the restricted partition function of the long-range $t$-$J$ model in subspaces with well-defined magnon content in terms of its analogue for the equivalent vertex model. This yields a complete analytical description of the spectrum in the latter subspaces, including the precise degeneracy of each level, by means of the supersymmetric version of Haldanes motifs and their related skew Young tableaux. As an application, we determine the structure of the motifs associated with the ground state of the spin $1/2$ model in the thermodynamic limit in terms of the magnetic field strength and the charge chemical potential. This leads to a complete characterization of the distinct ground state phases, determined by their spin content, in terms of the magnetic field strength and the charge chemical potential.
PdSb2 is a candidate for hosting 6-fold-degenerate exotic fermions (beyond Dirac and Weyl fermions).The nontrivial band crossing protected by the nonsymmorphic symmetry plays a crucial role in physical properties. We have grown high-quality single crystals of PdSb2 and characterized their physical properties under several stimuli (temperature, magnetic field, and pressure). While it is a diamagnetic Fermi-liquid metal under ambient pressure, PdSb2 exhibits a large magnetoresistance with continuous increase up to 14 T, which follows the Kohlers scaling law at all temperatures. This implies one-band electrical transport, although multiple bands are predicted by first principles calculations. By applying magnetic field along the [111] direction, de Haas-van Alphen oscillations are observed with frequency of 102 T. The effective mass is nearly zero (0.045m0) with the Berry phase close to {pi}, confirming that the band close to the R point has a nontrivial character. Under quasihydrostatic pressure (p), evidence for superconductivity is observed in the resistivity below the critical temperature Tc. The dome-shaped Tc versus p is obtained with maximum Tc~2.9 K. We argue that the formation of Cooper pairs (bosons) is the consequence of the redistribution of the 6-fold-degenerate fermions under pressure.
We analytically study momentum-space entanglement in quantum spin-half ladders consisting of two coupled critical XXZ spin-half chains using field theoretical methods. When the system is gapped, the momentum-space entanglement Hamiltonian is described by a conformal field theory with a central charge of two. This is in contrast to entanglement Hamiltonians of various real-space partitions of gapped-spin ladders that have a central charge of one. When the system is gapless, we interestingly find that the entanglement Hamiltonian consist of one gapless mode linear in subsystem momentum and one mode with a flat dispersion relation. We also find that the momentum-space entanglement entropy obeys a volume law.
We generalize techniques previously used to compute ground-state properties of one-dimensional noninteracting quantum gases to obtain exact results at finite temperature. We compute the order-n Renyi entanglement entropy to all orders in the fugacity in one, two, and three spatial dimensions. In all spatial dimensions, we provide closed-form expressions for its virial expansion up to next-to-leading order. In all of our results, we find explicit volume scaling in the high-temperature limit.