Universal Behavior of Entanglement in 2D Quantum Critical Dimer Models

Abstract

We examine the scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy for the 2D quantum dimer model (QDM) at criticality and derive the universal finite sub-leading correction ${\gamma }_{QCP}$. We compute the value of ${\gamma }_{QCP}$ without approximation working directly with the wave function of a generalized 2D QDM at the Rokhsar-Kivelson QCP in the continuum limit. Using the replica approach, we construct the conformal boundary state corresponding to the cyclic identification of $n$-copies along the boundary of the observed region. We find that the universal finite term is ${\gamma }_{QCP}=\ln R-1/2$ where $R$ is the compactification radius of the bose field theory quantum Lifshitz model, the effective field theory of the 2D QDM at quantum criticality. We also demonstrated that the entanglement spectrum of the critical wave function on a large but finite region is described by the characters of the underlying conformal field theory. It is shown that this is formally related to the problems of quantum Brownian motion on $n$-dimensional lattices or equivalently a system of strings interacting with a brane containing a background electromagnetic field and can be written as an expectation value of a vertex operator.

v2. Corrected the glueing condition for the boundary state, published version

References in corpus (13)

• Entanglement Spectrum as a Generalization of Entanglement Entropy: Identification of Topological Order in Non-Abelian Fractional Quantum Hall Effect States
• Entanglement and correlation functions following a local quench: a conformal field theory approach
• Topological Order and Conformal Quantum Critical Points
• Quantum Noise as an Entanglement Meter
• Entanglement entropy of 2D conformal quantum critical points: hearing the shape of a quantum drum
• Entanglement Entropy in the O(N) model
• Unusual Corrections to Scaling in Entanglement Entropy
• Universal entanglement entropy in 2D conformal quantum critical points
• Interacting classical dimers on the square lattice
• Topological order from quantum loops and nets
• Loop models and their critical points
• Boundary Conformal Field Theory and Entanglement Entropy in Two-Dimensional Quantum Lifshitz Critical Point
• Scaling of von Neumann entropy at the Anderson transition

Cited by in corpus (3)

• Entanglement spectrum of random-singlet quantum critical points
• Entanglement entropy of integer Quantum Hall states in polygonal domains
• Boundary Conformal Field Theory and Entanglement Entropy in Two-Dimensional Quantum Lifshitz Critical Point