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Phys. Rev. A 81, 032311 (2010) [4 pages]

Universality of the negativity in the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model

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Hannu Wichterich1,*, Julien Vidal2,†, and Sougato Bose1,‡
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom
2Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée, CNRS UMR 7600, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris Cedex 05, France

Received 6 October 2009; revised 8 January 2010; published 11 March 2010

The entanglement between noncomplementary blocks of a many-body system, where a part of the system forms an ignored environment, is a largely untouched problem without analytic results. We rectify this gap by studying the logarithmic negativity between two macroscopic sets of spins in an arbitrary tripartition of a collection of mutually interacting spins described by the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick Hamiltonian. This entanglement measure is found to be finite and universal at the critical point for any tripartition whereas it diverges for a bipartition. In this limiting case, we show that it behaves as the entanglement entropy, suggesting a deep relation between the scaling exponents of these two independently defined quantities which may be valid for other systems.

© 2010 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.032311
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.81.032311
PACS:
03.67.Bg, 75.10.Jm, 03.65.Ud, 64.70.Tg

*hannu@theory.phys.ucl.ac.uk

vidal@lptmc.jussieu.fr

sougato@theory.phys.ucl.ac.uk