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02 de outubro de 2018 (Terça-feira)
16h30
Sala 18 (Cristalografia)

Mohammad A. Rajabpour
Universidade Federal Fluminense

Area-law and universality in the statistics of the subsystem energy

Consider a quantum chain in its ground state and then take a subdomain of this system with
natural truncated hamiltonian. Since the total hamiltonian does not commute with the truncated
hamiltonian the subsystem can be in one of its eigenenergies with different probabilities. Since
the global energy eigenstates are locally close to diagonal in the local energy eigenbasis we argue
that the Shannon (Renyi) entropy of these probabilities follows an area-law for the gapped systems.
When the system is at the critical point the Shannon (Renyi) entropy follows a logarithmic behaviour
with a universal coefficient. Our results show that the Shannon(Renyi) entropy of the subsystem
energies closely mimics the behaviour of the entanglement entropy in quantum chains. We support
the arguments by detailed calculations performed on the transverse field XY-chain.