Naslov
The Frustration in Being Odd: Area Law Violation in Local Systems

Autori
Franchini, Fabio

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Skup
Conference on Physics of Defects in Solids: Quantum Mechanics Meets Topology

Mjesto i datum
Trst, Italija, 09.07.2018. - 13.07.2018

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Nije recenziran

Ključne riječi
Entanglement ; Frustration ; Area Law Violation

Sažetak
We consider anti-ferromagnetic spin chains with a weak frustration -just one bond in a large chain-, such as systems with an odd number of spins with periodic boundary conditions. We show that, in certain cases, a new quantum phase of matter arises in these systems. Such phase is extended, gapless, but not relativistic. The low-energy excitations have a quadratic (Galilean) spectrum. Locally, the correlation functions on the ground state do not show significant deviations compared to the not-frustrated case, but correlators involving a number of sites (or distances) scaling like the system size display new behaviors. In particular, the Von Neumann entanglement entropy is found to follow new rules, for which neither area law applies, nor one has a divergence of the entropy with the system size. Such very long range correlations are novel and of potential technological interest. We display such new phase in a few prototypical chains using numerical simulations and we study analytically the paradigmatic example of the Ising chain. Through these examples we argue that this phase emerges generally in (weakly) frustrated systems with discrete symmetries.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Fizika

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