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Chinese Physics Letters

Boundary Quantum Entanglement of the XXZ Spin Chain with Boundary Impurities

Zhuo Wei, Yupeng Wang

Published Dec 1, 2007• 1 citation
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Abstract

The boundary quantum entanglement for the s = 1/2 XXZ spin chain with boundary impurities is studied via the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. It is shown that the entanglement entropy of the boundary bond (the impurity and the chain spin next to it) behaves differently in different phases. The relationship between the singular points of the boundary entropy and boundary quantum critical points is discussed.

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10.1088/0256-307x/24/12/008

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The boundary quantum entanglement for the s = 1/2 XXZ spin chain with boundary impurities is studied via the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) method. It is shown that the entanglement entropy of the boundary bond (the impurity and the chain spin next to it) behaves differently in different phases. The relationship between the singular points of the boundary entropy and boundary quantum critical points is discussed.
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We present exact diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group results for the entanglement entropy of critical spin-1/2 XXZ chains. We find that open boundary conditions induce an alternating term in both the energy density and the entanglement entropy which are approximately proportional, decaying away from the boundary with a power law. The power varies with anisotropy along the critical line and is corrected by a logarithmic factor, which we calculate analytically, at the isotropic point. A heuristic resonating valence bond explanation is suggested.
We calculate the entanglement and the universal boundary entropy (BE) in critical quantum spin chains, such as the transverse field Ising chain and the XXZ chain, with arbitrary direction of the boundary magnetic field (ADBMF). We determine the boundary universality class that an ADBMF induces. In particular, we show that the induced boundary conformal field theory depends on the point on the Bloch sphere where the boundary magnetic field directs. We show that the classification of the directions boils down to the simple fact that the boundary field breaks the bulk symmetry or does not. We present a procedure to estimate the universal BE, based on the finite-size corrections of the entanglement entropy, which apply to ADBMF. To calculate the universal BE in the XXZ chain, we use the density matrix renormalization group. The transverse field XY chain with ADBMF after Jordan-Wigner transformation is not a quadratic free fermion Hamiltonian. We map this model to a quadratic free fermion chain by introducing two extra ancillary spins coupled to the main chain at the boundaries, which makes the problem integrable. The eigenstates of the transverse field XY chain can be obtained by proper projection in the enlarged chain. Using this mapping, we are able to calculate the entanglement entropy of the transverse field XY chain using the usual correlation matrix technique up to relatively large sizes.
By using the method of density-matrix renormalization-group theory, the ground-state entanglement in the spin-1/2 isotropic antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain is studied when there are domain walls generated by a boundary magnetic field. It is found that the pairwise entanglement of odd-bond two qubits decreases and even-bond two qubits increases to stable values alternately when the magnetic field increases. The pairwise entanglement of odd bond can be equal to that of even bond for a suitable value of the magnetic field. When the magnetic field increases further, the entanglement of even bond can be larger than that of odd bond. The entanglement entropy increases and then almost saturates as the number of spin sites increases. Due to the domain walls, the entanglement entropy of even bond decreases to a minimum value and then increases as the magnetic field increases.