Multiparty entanglement microscopy of quantum Ising models in one, two, and three dimensions

Abstract

Entanglement microscopy reveals the true quantum correlations among the microscopic building blocks of many-body systems [Nat. Commun. 16, 96 (2025)]. Using this approach, we study the multipartite entanglement of the quantum Ising model in 1D, 2D, and 3D. We first obtain the full reduced density matrix (tomography) of subregions that have at most four sites via quantum Monte Carlo, exact diagonalization, and the exact solution in 1D. We then analyze both bipartite and genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) among the sites in the subregion. To do so, we use a variety of measures including the negativity, as well as a true measure of GME: the genuinely multipartite concurrence (or GME concurrence), and its computationally cheaper lower bound ${I}_{2}$. We provide a complete proof that ${I}_{2}$ bounds the GME concurrence, and show how the symmetries of the state simplify its evaluation. For adjacent sites, we find three- and four-spin GME present across large portions of the phase diagram, reaching a maximum near the quantum critical point. In 1D, we identify the singular scaling of the derivative $d{I}_{2}/dh$ approaching the critical point. We observe a sharp decrease in GME with increasing dimensionality, consistent with the monogamous nature of entanglement. Furthermore, we find that GME vanishes for subregions consisting of nonadjacent sites in both 2D and 3D, offering a stark illustration of the short-ranged nature of entanglement in equilibrium quantum matter [arXiv:2402.06677]. Finally, we analyze the most collective form of entanglement by evaluating the GME concurrence among all spins in the lattice, which can be obtained from a simple observable: the single-site transverse magnetization. This global concurrence is larger in 1D compared to 2D and 3D, but it is relatively less robust against perturbations such as local measurements.