arXiv:2203.17264

Growth of R??nyi Entropies in Interacting Integrable Models and the Breakdown of the Quasiparticle Picture

Bruno Bertini, Katja Klobas, Vincenzo Alba, Gianluca Lagnese, Pasquale Calabrese

Published Jan 1, 2022• 74 citations

Abstract

Re acute accent nyi entropies are conceptually valuable and experimentally relevant generalizations of the celebrated von Neumann entanglement entropy. After a quantum quench in a clean quantum many-body system they generically display a universal linear growth in time followed by saturation. While a finite subsystem is essentially at local equilibrium when the entanglement saturates, it is genuinely out of equilibrium in the growth phase. In particular, the slope of the growth carries vital information on the nature of the system's dynamics, and its characterization is a key objective of current research. Here we show that the slope of Re acute accent nyi entropies can be determined by means of a spacetime duality transformation. In essence, we argue that the slope coincides with the stationary density of entropy of the model obtained by exchanging the roles of space and time. Therefore, very surprisingly, the slope of the entanglement is expressed as an equilibrium quantity. We use this observation to find an explicit exact formula for the slope of Re acute accent nyi entropies in all integrable models treatable by thermodynamic Bethe ansatz and evolving from integrable initial states. Interestingly, this formula can be understood in terms of a quasiparticle picture only in the von Neumann limit.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.12.031016

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