Typical entanglement entropy in systems with particle-number conservation
We calculate the typical bipartite entanglement entropy ${\ensuremath{\langle}{S}_{A}\ensuremath{\rangle}}_{N}$ in systems containing indistinguishable particles of any kind as a function of the total particle number $N$, the volume $V$, and the subsystem fraction $f={V}_{A}/V$, where ${V}_{A}$ is the volume of the subsystem. We expand our result as a power series ${\ensuremath{\langle}{S}_{A}\ensuremath{\rangle}}_{N}=afV+b\sqrt{V}+c+o(1)$, and find that $c$ is universal (i.e., independent of the system type), while $a$ and $b$ can be obtained from a generating function characterizing the local Hilbert space dimension. We illustrate the generality of our findings by studying a wide range of different systems, e.g., bosons, fermions, spins, and mixtures thereof. We provide evidence that our analytical results describe the entanglement entropy of highly excited eigenstates of quantum-chaotic spin and boson systems, which is distinct from that of integrable counterparts.
Authors
- Rohit Patil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8250-2382)
- Marcos Rigol (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5806-5873)
- Lucas Hackl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4172-0317)
- Yicheng Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4480-4508)
- Yale Cheng (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3144-4272)
Institutions
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- University of Waterloo (CA)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Perimeter Institute (CA)
- University of Oklahoma (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. B./Physical review. B
- Published
- 2024-12-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.110.235154
- Citations
- 7
- Primary Topic
- Quantum many-body systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.36
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- John Templeton Foundation
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- University of Oklahoma
- University of Melbourne
- Australian Research Council