Entanglement evolution across defects in critical anisotropic Heisenberg chains
arXiv:1302.4274 · doi:10.1088/1751-8113/46/17/175001
Abstract
We study the out-of-equilibrium time evolution after a local quench connecting two anisotropic spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg open chains via an impurity bond. The dynamics is obtained by means of the adaptive time-dependent density-matrix renormalization group. We show that the entanglement entropies (Von Neumann and Rényi), in the presence of a weakened bond depend on the sign of the bulk interaction. For attractive interaction (Δ< 0), the defect turns out to be irrelevant and the evolution is asymptotically equivalent to the one without defect obtained by conformal field theory. For repulsive interaction (Δ>0), the defect is relevant and the entanglement saturates to a finite value. This out-of-equilibrium behavior generalizes the well known results for the ground-state entanglement entropy of the model.
16 pages, 7 figures, Eq.5 added, typos corrected, references added
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