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Entanglement in Valence-Bond-Solid States
2011-04-12
来源:科技处 点击次数:主讲人:Dr. Ying Xu(徐鹰)
(Institute of Theoretical Physics,University of Innsbruck,Austria)
时 间:4月12日(周二)14:00-15:00
地 点:数学科学学院 412教室
备 注:Abstract: The Valence-Bond-Solid (VBS) state was first introduced as the ground state of the celebrated Affleck-Kennedy-Lieb-Tasaki (AKLT) spin chain model in statistical mechanics.Then it became essential in condensed matter physics,quantum information and measurement-based quantum computation. Recent studies elucidated important entanglement properties of VBS states.We start with the definition of a general AKLT model and the construction of VBS ground states. In order to study entanglement, a block subsystem is introduced and described by the density matrix and the block Hamiltonian.Exact spectrum properties of the density matrix are proved and discussed. Density matrices of 1-dimensional models are diagonalized and the entanglement entropies (the von Neumann entropy and the Rényi entropy) are calculated. Both entropies take the saturated value and the density matrix is proportional to a projector in the large block limit.