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Dynamics of entanglement entropy and entanglement spectrum crossing a quantum phase transition

arXiv:1311.3612 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.89.104303

Abstract

We study the time evolution of entanglement entropy and entanglement spectrum in a finite-size system which crosses a quantum phase transition at different speeds. We focus on the Ising model with a time-dependent magnetic field, which is linearly tuned on a time scale . The time evolution of the entanglement entropy displays different regimes depending on the value of , showing also oscillations which depend on the instantaneous energy spectrum. The entanglement spectrum is characterized by a rich dynamics where multiple crossings take place with a gap-dependent frequency. Moreover, we investigate the Kibble-Zurek scaling of entanglement entropy and Schmidt gap.

Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B

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