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Phys. Rev. A 80, 010304(R) (2009) [4 pages]

Scaling of entanglement between separated blocks in spin chains at criticality

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H. Wichterich1, J. Molina-Vilaplana2, and S. Bose1
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom
2Department of Systems Engineering and Automation, Technical University of Cartagena, Campus Muralla del Mar s/n, 30202 Cartagena, Murcia, Spain

Received 4 June 2009; published 27 July 2009

We compute the entanglement between separated blocks in certain spin models showing that at criticality this entanglement is a function of the ratio of the separation to the length of the blocks and can be written as a product of a power law and an exponential decay. It thereby interpolates between the entanglement of individual spins and blocks of spins. It captures features of correlation functions at criticality as well as the monogamous nature of entanglement. We exemplify invariant features of this entanglement to microscopic changes within the same universality class. We find this entanglement to be invariant with respect to simultaneous scale transformations of the separation and the length of the blocks. As a corollary, this Rapid Communication estimates the entanglement between separated regions of those quantum fields to which the considered spin models map at criticality.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.010304
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.80.010304
PACS:
03.67.Bg, 64.70.Tg, 75.10.Jm