Publicación: Piercing the rainbow state: Entanglement on an inhomogeneous spin chain with a defect
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2021-05-15
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The rainbow state denotes a set of valence bond states organized concentrically around the center of a spin 1/2 chain. It is the ground state of an inhomogeneous XX Hamiltonian and presents a maximal violation of the area law of entanglement entropy. Here, we add a tunable exchange coupling constant at the center, γ , and show that it induces entanglement transitions of the ground state. At very strong inhomogeneity, the rainbow state survives for 0≤γ≤1 , while outside that region the ground state is a product of dimers. In the weak inhomogeneity regime, the entanglement entropy satisfies a volume law, derived from CFT in curved space-time, with an effective central charge that depends on the inhomogeneity parameter and γ . In all regimes we have found that the entanglement properties are invariant under the transformation γ ⟷ 1 − γ , whose fixed point γ = 1 / 2 corresponds to the usual rainbow model. Finally, we study the robustness of nontrivial topological phases in the presence of the defect.
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Física Fundamental