Naslov
Entanglement complexity in quantum many-body dynamics, thermalization, and localization

Autori
Yang, Zhi-Cheng ; Hamma, Alioscia ; Giampaolo, Salvatore M. ; Mucciolo, Eduardo R. ; Chamon, Claudio

Izvornik
Physical review. B (2469-9950) 96 (2017), 2; 020408, 5

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, kratko priopcenje, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
entanglement ; many-body dynamics ; thermalization ; localization

Sažetak
Entanglement is usually quantified by von Neumann entropy, but its properties are much more complex than what can be expressed with a single number. We show that the three distinct dynamical phases known as thermalization, Anderson localization, and many-body localization are marked by different patterns of the spectrum of the reduced density matrix for a state evolved after a quantum quench. While the entanglement spectrum displays Poisson statistics for the case of Anderson localization, it displays universal Wigner-Dyson statistics for both the cases of many-body localization and thermalization, albeit the universal distribution is asymptotically reached within very different time scales in these two cases. We further show that the complexity of entanglement, revealed by the possibility of disentangling the state through a Metropolis-like algorithm, is signaled by whether the entanglement spectrum level spacing is Poisson or Wigner-Dyson distributed.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Fizika

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