Entanglement scaling in fermion chains with a localization-delocalization transition and inhomogeneous modulations

Abstract

We study the scaling of logarithmic negativity between adjacent subsystems in critical fermion chains with various inhomogeneous modulations through numerically calculating its recently established lower and upper bounds. For random couplings, as well as for a relevant aperiodic modulation of the couplings, which induces an aperiodic singlet state, the bounds are found to increase logarithmically with the subsystem size, and both prefactors agree with the predicted values characterizing the corresponding asymptotic singlet state. For the marginal Fibonacci modulation, the prefactors in front of the logarithm are different for the lower and the upper bound, and vary smoothly with the strength of the modulation. In the delocalized phase of the quasi-periodic Harper model, the scaling of the bounds of the logarithmic negativity as well as that of the entanglement entropy are compatible with the logarithmic scaling of the homogeneous chain. At the localization transition, the scaling of the above entanglement characteristics holds to be logarithmic, but the prefactors are significantly reduced compared to those of the translationally invariant case, roughly by the same factor.

9 pages, 9 figures

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