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Relevant long-range interaction of the entanglement Hamiltonian emerges from a short-range gapped system

  • Chuhao Li
  • , Rui Zhen Huang
  • , Yi Ming Ding
  • , Zi Yang Meng
  • , Yan Cheng Wang
  • , Zheng Yan
  • CAS - Institute of Physics
  • University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Ghent University
  • Fudan University
  • Westlake University
  • HKU-UCAS Joint Institute of Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Tianmushan Laboratory

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Abstract

Beyond the Li-Haldane-Poilblanc conjecture, we find the entanglement Hamiltonian (EH) is actually not closely similar to the original Hamiltonian on the virtual edge. Unexpectedly, the EH has some relevant long-range interacting terms which hugely affect the physics. Without loss of generality, we study a spin-1/2 Heisenberg bilayer to obtain the entanglement information between the two layers through our newly developed quantum Monte Carlo scheme, which can simulate large-scale EH. Although the entanglement spectrum carrying the Goldstone mode seems like a Heisenberg model on a single layer, which is consistent with Li-Haldane-Poilblanc conjecture, we demonstrate that there actually exists a finite-temperature phase transition of the EH. The results violate the Mermin-Wagner theorem, which means there should be relevant long-range terms in the EH. It reveals that the Li-Haldane-Poilblanc conjecture ignores necessary corrections for the EH which may lead totally different physics.

Original languageEnglish
Article number195169
JournalPhysical Review B
Volume109
Issue number19
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 May 2024

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