Typical entanglement entropy with charge conservation
We consider a many-body Hilbert space with a fixed global charge and show that the typical entanglement entropy of a subsystem, at the leading and subleading order in the thermodynamic limit, can be expressed in terms of a single quantity which represents the local thermal entropy at fixed charge density. We find a general formula which applies both to abelian U(1) U ( 1 ) symmetry and non-abelian SU(2) S U ( 2 ) symmetry, including the case of a local Hilbert space which transforms under a general reducible representation of the symmetry group. We illustrate the general formula with model systems and discuss the relevance of the results as a probe of quantum chaos for physical Hamiltonians.
Authors
- Pietro Donà (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7341-0682)
- Eugenio Bianchi A (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7847-9929)
- Erick Muiño
Institutions
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Université de Toulon (FR)
- Aix-Marseille Université (FR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- SciPost Physics
- Published
- 2026-10-29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.21468/scipostphys.21.4.107
- Primary Topic
- Quantum many-body systems
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- John Templeton Foundation