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Boundary Effects to Entropy and Entanglement of the Spin-1 Valence-Bond Solid

Heng Fan, V. E. Korepin, Vwani Roychowdhury, Christopher Hadley, Sougato Bose

Published May 16, 2006• 3 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the entropy of a subsystem for the valence-bond solid (VBS) state with general open boundary conditions. This entropy quantifies the entanglement of a bipartite state, and the effects of the boundary on the entropy are studied. We show that the effect of the boundary on the entropy decays exponentially fast in the distance between the subsytem considered and the boundary sites. Further, we show that as the size of the subsystem increases, its entropy exponentially approaches the summation of the entropies of the two ends, the exponent being related to the size. We also study the entanglement between two spins. Curiously, while the boundary operators decrease the entropy of L spins, they increase the entanglement between two spins.

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