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Phase transition in the Rényi-Shannon entropy of Luttinger liquids

arXiv:1104.2544 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.84.195128

Abstract

The Rényi-Shannon entropy associated to critical quantum spins chain with central charge is shown to have a phase transition at some value of the Rényi parameter which depends on the Luttinger parameter (or compactification radius R). Using a new replica-free formulation, the entropy is expressed as a combination of single-sheet partition functions evaluated at dependent values of the stiffness. The transition occurs when a vertex operator becomes relevant at the boundary. Our numerical results (exact diagonalizations for the XXZ and models) are in agreement with the analytical predictions: above the subleading and universal contribution to the entropy is for open chains, and for periodic ones (R=1 at the free fermion point). The replica approach used in previous works fails to predict this transition and turns out to be correct only for . From the point of view of two-dimensional Rokhsar-Kivelson states, the transition reveals a rich structure in the entanglement spectra.

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