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Title: Entanglement of exact excited states of Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki models: Exact results, many-body scars, and violation of the strong eigenstate thermalization hypothesis

Abstract

We obtain multiple exact results on the entanglement of the exact excited states of nonintegrable models we introduced in Phys. Rev. B 98, 235155 (2018). We first discuss a general formalism to analytically compute the entanglement spectra of exact excited states using matrix product states and matrix product operators and illustrate the method by reproducing a general result on single-mode excitations. We then apply this technique to analytically obtain the entanglement spectra of the infinite tower of states of the spin-S AKLT models in the zero and finite energy density limits. We show that in the zero energy density limit, the entanglement spectra of the tower of states are multiple shifted copies of the ground-state entanglement spectrum in the thermodynamic limit. We show that such a resemblance is destroyed at any nonzero energy density. Furthermore, the entanglement entropy S of the states of the tower that are in the bulk of the spectrum is subthermal S ∝ log L, as opposed to a volume law S ∝ L, thus indicating a violation of the strong eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). These states are examples of what are now called many-body scars. Lastly, we analytically study the finite-size effects and symmetry-protected degeneraciesmore » in the entanglement spectra of the excited states, extending the existing theory.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
  2. Univ. Paris Diderot (France)
  3. Princeton Univ., NJ (United States); Freie Univ. Berlin (Germany); Max Planck Inst. of Microstructure Physics, Halle (Germany); Donostia International Physics Center (Spain); Sorbonne Univ., Paris (France); Univ. Paris Diderot (France)
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Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1612430
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OSTI ID: 1488978
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0016239; de-sc0016239
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physical Review. B
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 98; Journal Issue: 23; Journal ID: ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Materials Science; Physics; 1-dimensional spin chains; Discrete symmetries in condensed matter; Exact solutions for many-body systems; Projective symmetries; Spin lattice models; Symmetries; Symmetries in condensed matter; Tensor network methods

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Moudgalya, Sanjay, Regnault, Nicolas, and Bernevig, B. Andrei. Entanglement of exact excited states of Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki models: Exact results, many-body scars, and violation of the strong eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. United States: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1103/physrevb.98.235156.
Moudgalya, Sanjay, Regnault, Nicolas, & Bernevig, B. Andrei. Entanglement of exact excited states of Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki models: Exact results, many-body scars, and violation of the strong eigenstate thermalization hypothesis. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.98.235156
Moudgalya, Sanjay, Regnault, Nicolas, and Bernevig, B. Andrei. Thu . "Entanglement of exact excited states of Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki models: Exact results, many-body scars, and violation of the strong eigenstate thermalization hypothesis". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.98.235156. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1612430.
@article{osti_1612430,
title = {Entanglement of exact excited states of Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki models: Exact results, many-body scars, and violation of the strong eigenstate thermalization hypothesis},
author = {Moudgalya, Sanjay and Regnault, Nicolas and Bernevig, B. Andrei},
abstractNote = {We obtain multiple exact results on the entanglement of the exact excited states of nonintegrable models we introduced in Phys. Rev. B 98, 235155 (2018). We first discuss a general formalism to analytically compute the entanglement spectra of exact excited states using matrix product states and matrix product operators and illustrate the method by reproducing a general result on single-mode excitations. We then apply this technique to analytically obtain the entanglement spectra of the infinite tower of states of the spin-S AKLT models in the zero and finite energy density limits. We show that in the zero energy density limit, the entanglement spectra of the tower of states are multiple shifted copies of the ground-state entanglement spectrum in the thermodynamic limit. We show that such a resemblance is destroyed at any nonzero energy density. Furthermore, the entanglement entropy S of the states of the tower that are in the bulk of the spectrum is subthermal S ∝ log L, as opposed to a volume law S ∝ L, thus indicating a violation of the strong eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH). These states are examples of what are now called many-body scars. Lastly, we analytically study the finite-size effects and symmetry-protected degeneracies in the entanglement spectra of the excited states, extending the existing theory.},
doi = {10.1103/physrevb.98.235156},
journal = {Physical Review. B},
number = 23,
volume = 98,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 27 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Thu Dec 27 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}

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