Reduced density matrices and entanglement entropy in free lattice models
Reduced density matrices and entanglement entropy in free lattice models
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DOI:
10.1088/1751-8113/42/50/504003
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2009-06
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I. Peschel;V. Eisler
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作者:
I. Peschel;V. Eisler
We review the properties of reduced density matrices for free fermionic or bosonic many-particle systems in their ground state. Their basic feature is that they have a thermal form and thus lead to a quasi-thermodynamic problem with a certain free-particle Hamiltonian. We discuss the derivation of this result, the character of the Hamiltonian and its eigenstates, the single-particle spectra and the full spectra, the resulting entanglement and in particular the entanglement entropy. This is done for various one- and two-dimensional situations, including also the evolution after global or local quenches.