Quantum entanglement in the t-J chain: From charge-spin separation to recombination

Abstract

In contrast to the conventional von Neumann bipartite entanglement entropy (bEE), we show that a more appropriate description of the one-dimensional doped Mott insulator is a new kind of mutual entanglement entropy (mEE) between the charge and spin degrees of freedom. Such a charge-spin mEE can clearly distinguish the important and distinct features between the $t$-$J$ model and the so-called $\sigma \cdot t$-$J$ model. In the latter, the phase string sign structure is switched off such that a single doped hole always behaves like a Bloch wave in the whole regime of $J/t$, whereas in the former it exhibits a series of level crossing with the total momentum jumps in the single-hole ground state from spin-charge separation at $J/t\to 0$ to spin-charge recombination at large $J/t$, which are failed to be detected by bEE. We further show that the distinctions between the two models persist to finite energy density, which can be similarly well characterized by mEE but not by bEE. By studying the dynamic time evolution of the states set out of equilibrium at the beginning, we show that mEE indeed always increases with the time, satisfying the common characteristic of entropy.

arXiv comment7 pages, 8 figures, published version

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