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Hatem Barghathi

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The two-particle density matrix of a Luttinger liquid

Two-particle coherence is the first level of the reduced-density-matrix hierarchy that contains correlations inaccessible to single-particle observables, yet analytic two-particle density matrices are rare even in one dimension. We derive a closed, finite-size expression for the equal-time two-particle reduced density matrix of spinless fermions in a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid using constructive bosonization with an explicit ultraviolet cutoff. In addition to the familiar Luttinger parameter $K$-dependent exponent $\gamma^2=(K+K^{-1}-2)/2$ which governs the spatial decay of matrix elements, the result exposes a second exponent, $\lambda=(K^{-1}-K)/2$, which encodes correlations between opposite chiralities and controls the off-diagonal structure. The diagonal limit of the two-particle reduced density matrix yields density correlations and the static structure factor, while its coherences resolve algebraic $2k_F$ charge-density-wave correlations for repulsion and odd-parity p-wave pairing correlations for attraction. After fixing the cutoff from the one-particle density matrix, the analytic result quantitatively reproduces density matrix renormalization group calculations of the interacting J-V chain within the Luttinger liquid regime. The result connects universal Luttinger liquid scaling with observables in finite microscopic systems.

cond-mat.str-el

Quantum simulation of Motzkin spin chain with Rydberg atoms

Motzkin spin chain is a well-known mathematical model with connections to symmetry-protected topological phases, such as the Haldane phase, as well as to concepts in the AdS/CFT correspondence. They exhibit highly entangled ground states that violate the area law and are exceptionally difficult to simulate with conventional numerical methods. Numerical simulations of the Motzkin ground state become further challenging at large system sizes due to their high-dimensional spin structure, rendering it a natural test bed for quantum simulation with ultra-cold systems. Here, we propose a Rydberg-atom based quantum simulation scheme that effectively realizes Motzkin spins using an experimentally accessible set of parameters. We show that the resulting effective Motzkin ground state reproduces the characteristic entanglement scaling and the block-structure properties of the reduced density matrix associated with the ideal Motzkin state. Our results establish a pathway toward a concrete experimental realization of Motzkin spins beyond purely mathematical constructions, opening avenues for exploring other similar exotic non-area-law entangled phases in programmable Rydberg simulators.

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Detection of a R\'enyi Index Dependent Transition in Entanglement Entropy Scaling

The scaling of entanglement with subsystem size encodes key information about phases and criticality, but the von Neumann entropy is costly to access in experiments and simulations, often requiring full state tomography. The second R\'enyi entropy is readily measured using two-copy protocols and is often used as a proxy for the von Neumann entanglement entropy, where it is assumed to track its asymptotic scaling. Sugino and Korepiny (Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 32, 1850306 (2018)) revealed that in the ground state of some highly constrained spin models, the scaling of the von Neumann and R\'enyi entropies can differ, varying from power law to logarithmic scaling as a function of the R\'enyi index. Here, we construct a number-conserving many-body state that demonstrates a R\'enyi-index-dependent change in the leading entanglement scaling, generalizing previous results to the case of interacting fermions. We introduce a symmetry-aware lower bound on the von Neumann entropy built from charge-resolved R\'enyi entropies that can provide a protocol for diagnosing anomalous entanglement scaling from experimentally accessible data.

cond-mat.str-el

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Renormalization Group Flow at a Quantum Phase Transition

We present a controlled numerical study of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transition in the one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard model at unit filling, providing evidence of the characteristic logarithmic finite-size scaling of the BKT transition. Employing density matrix renormalization group and quantum Monte Carlo simulations under periodic boundary conditions, together with a systematic finite-size scaling analysis of bipartite particle number fluctuations, we resolve boundary-induced complications that previously obscured critical scaling. We demonstrate that a suitably chosen central region under open boundaries reproduces universal RG signatures, reconciling earlier discrepancies. Finally, leveraging a non-parametric Bayesian analysis, we determine the critical interaction strength with high precision, establishing a benchmark for BKT physics in one-dimensional quantum models.

cond-mat.quant-gas

Disentangling the Physics of the Attractive Hubbard Model via the Accessible and Symmetry-Resolved Entanglement Entropies

The complicated ways in which electrons interact in many-body systems such as molecules and materials have long been viewed through the lens of local electron correlation and associated correlation functions. However, quantum information science has demonstrated that more global diagnostics of quantum states, like the entanglement entropy, can provide a complementary and clarifying lens on electronic behavior. One particularly useful measure that can be used to distinguish between quantum and classical sources of entanglement is the accessible entanglement, the entanglement available as a quantum resource for systems subject to conservation laws, such as fixed particle number, due to superselection rules. In this work, we introduce an algorithm and demonstrate how to compute accessible and symmetry-resolved entanglements for interacting fermion systems. This is accomplished by combining an incremental version of the swap algorithm with a recursive Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo algorithm recently developed by the authors. We apply these tools to study the pairing and charge density waves exhibited in the paradigmatic attractive Hubbard model via entanglement. We find that the particle and spin symmetry-resolved entanglements and their related full probability distribution functions show very clear - and unique - signatures of the underlying electronic behavior even when those features are less pronounced in more conventional correlation functions. Overall, this work provides a systematic means of characterizing the entanglement within quantum systems that can grant a deeper understanding of the complicated electronic behavior that underlies quantum phase transitions and crossovers in many-body systems.

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A Scaling Function for the Particle Entanglement Entropy of Fermions

Entanglement entropy under a particle bipartition provides complementary information to mode entanglement as it is sensitive to interactions and particle statistics at leading order and does not depend on any externally imposed length scale. In this paper, we investigate the particle entanglement entropy in a system of $N$ interacting spinless lattice fermions in one spatial dimension by combining bosonization techniques with exact and approximate numerical methods. We introduce a general scaling form for the fermionic particle entanglement entropy captured by a shape function that enters as a extensive interaction induced correction to a known free fermion result. A general asymptotic expansion in the total number of particles demonstrates that its form is robust for different values of the Rényi index and highlights how quantum correlations are encoded in the $n$-particle density matrix of a pure many-body quantum state.

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A Stable, Recursive Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo Algorithm in the Canonical Ensemble: Applications to Thermometry and the Hubbard Model

Many experimentally-accessible, finite-sized interacting quantum systems are most appropriately described by the canonical ensemble of statistical mechanics. Conventional numerical simulation methods either approximate them as being coupled to a particle bath, or use projective algorithms which may suffer from non-optimal scaling with system size or large algorithmic prefactors. In this paper, we introduce a highly stable, recursive Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo approach that can directly simulate systems in the canonical ensemble. We apply the method to the fermion Hubbard model in one and two spatial dimensions in a regime known to exhibit a significant "sign" problem and find improved performance over existing approaches including rapid convergence to ground state expectation values. The effects of excitations above the ground state are quantified using an estimator-agnostic approach including studying the temperature dependence of the purity and overlap fidelity of the canonical and grand canonical density matrices. As an important application, we show that thermometry approaches often exploited in ultra-cold atoms that employ an analysis of the velocity distribution in the grand canonical ensemble may be subject to errors leading to an under-estimation of extracted temperatures with respect to the Fermi temperature.

cond-mat.str-el

One-particle entanglement for one dimensional spinless fermions after an interaction quantum quench

Particle entanglement provides information on quantum correlations in systems of indistinguishable particles. Here, we study the one particle entanglement entropy for an integrable model of spinless, interacting fermions both at equilibrium and after an interaction quantum quench. Using both large scale exact diagonalization and time dependent density matrix renormalization group calculations, we numerically compute the one body reduced density matrix for the J-V model, as well as its post-quench dynamics. We include an analysis of the fermionic momentum distribution, showcasing its time evolution after a quantum quench. Our numerical results, extrapolated to the thermodynamic limit, can be compared with field theoretic bosonization in the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid regime. Excellent agreement is obtained using an interaction cutoff that can be determined uniquely in the ground state.

cond-mat.quant-gas

Measuring post-quench entanglement entropy through density correlations

Following a sudden change of interactions in an integrable system of one-dimensional fermions, we analyze the dependence of the static structure factor on the observation time after the quantum quench. At small waiting times after the quench, we map the system to non-interacting bosons such that we are able to extract their occupation numbers from the Fourier transform of the density-density correlation function, and use these to compute a bosonic entropy from a diagonal ensemble. By comparing this bosonic entropy with the asymptotic steady state entanglement entropy per fermion computed with exact diagonalization we find excellent agreement.

cond-mat.stat-mech

Balls and Walls: A Compact Unary Coding for Bosonic States

We introduce a unary coding of bosonic occupation states based on the famous "balls and walls" counting for the number of configurations of $N$ indistinguishable particles on $L$ distinguishable sites. Each state is represented by an integer with a human readable bit string that has a compositional structure allowing for the efficient application of operators that locally modify the number of bosons. By exploiting translational and inversion symmetries, we identify a speedup factor of order $L$ over current methods when generating the basis states of bosonic lattice models. The unary coding is applied to a one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard Hamiltonian with up to $L=N=20$, and the time needed to generate the ground state block is reduced to a fraction of the diagonalization time. For the ground state symmetry resolved entanglement, we demonstrate that variational approaches restricting the local bosonic Hilbert space could result in an error that scales with system size.

cond-mat.quant-gas

Equivalence of Spatial and Particle Entanglement Growth After a Quantum Quench

We analyze fermions after an interaction quantum quench in one spatial dimension and study the growth of the steady state entanglement entropy density under either a spatial mode or particle bipartition. For integrable lattice models, we find excellent agreement between the increase of spatial and particle entanglement entropy, and for chaotic models, an examination of two further neighbor interaction strengths suggests similar correspondence. This result highlights the generality of the dynamical conversion of entanglement to thermodynamic entropy under time evolution that underlies our current framework of quantum statistical mechanics.

cond-mat.stat-mech

Theory of Non-Interacting Fermions and Bosons in the Canonical Ensemble

We present a self-contained theory for the exact calculation of particle number counting statistics of non-interacting indistinguishable particles in the canonical ensemble. This general framework introduces the concept of auxiliary partition functions, and represents a unification of previous distinct approaches with many known results appearing as direct consequences of the developed mathematical structure. In addition, we introduce a general decomposition of the correlations between occupation numbers in terms of the occupation numbers of individual energy levels, that is valid for both non-degenerate and degenerate spectra. To demonstrate the applicability of the theory in the presence of degeneracy, we compute energy level correlations up to fourth order in a bosonic ring in the presence of a magnetic field.

cond-mat.stat-mech

Operationally accessible entanglement of one dimensional spinless fermions

For indistinguishable itinerant particles subject to a superselection rule fixing their total number, a portion of the entanglement entropy under a spatial bipartition of the ground state is due to particle fluctuations between subsystems and thus is inaccessible as a resource for quantum information processing. We quantify the remaining operationally accessible entanglement in a model of interacting spinless fermions on a one dimensional lattice via exact diagonalization and the density matrix renormalization group. We find that the accessible entanglement exactly vanishes at the first order phase transition between a Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid and phase separated solid for attractive interactions and is maximal at the transition to the charge density wave for repulsive interactions. Throughout the phase diagram, we discuss the connection between the accessible entanglement entropy and the variance of the probability distribution describing intra-subregion particle number fluctuations.

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Rényi generalization of the operational entanglement entropy

Operationally accessible entanglement in bipartite systems of indistinguishable particles could be reduced due to restrictions on the allowed local operations as a result of particle number conservation. In order to quantify this effect, Wiseman and Vaccaro [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 097902 (2003)] introduced an operational measure of the von Neumann entanglement entropy. Motivated by advances in measuring Rényi entropies in quantum many-body systems subject to conservation laws, we derive a generalization of the operational entanglement that is both computationally and experimentally accessible. Using the Widom theorem, we investigate its scaling with the size of a spatial subregion for free fermions and find a logarithmically violated area law scaling, similar to the spatial entanglement entropy, with at most, a double-log leading-order correction. A modification of the correlation matrix method confirms our findings in systems of up to $10^5$ particles.

cond-mat.quant-gas

Particle partition entanglement of one dimensional spinless fermions

We investigate the scaling of the Rényi entanglement entropies for a particle bipartition of interacting spinless fermions in one spatial dimension. In the Tomonaga-Luttinger liquid regime, we calculate the second Rényi entanglement entropy and show that the leading order finite-size scaling is equal to a universal logarithm of the system size plus a non-universal constant. Higher-order corrections decay as power-laws in the system size with exponents that depend only on the Luttinger parameter. We confirm the universality of our results by investigating the one dimensional $t-V$ model of interacting spinless fermions via exact-diagonalization techniques. The resulting sensitivity of the particle partition entanglement to boundary conditions and statistics supports its utility as a probe of quantum liquids.

cond-mat.quant-gas

Extinction phase transitions in a model of ecological and evolutionary dynamics

We study the non-equilibrium phase transition between survival and extinction of spatially extended biological populations using an agent-based model. We especially focus on the effects of global temporal fluctuations of the environmental conditions, i.e., temporal disorder. Using large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations of up to $3\times 10^7$ organisms and $10^5$ generations, we find the extinction transition in time-independent environments to be in the well-known directed percolation universality class. In contrast, temporal disorder leads to a highly unusual extinction transition characterized by logarithmically slow population decay and enormous fluctuations even for large populations. The simulations provide strong evidence for this transition to be of exotic infinite-noise type, as recently predicted by a renormalization group theory. The transition is accompanied by temporal Griffiths phases featuring a power-law dependence of the life time on the population size.

cond-mat.stat-mech

Contact process with temporal disorder

We investigate the influence of time-varying environmental noise, i.e., temporal disorder, on the nonequilibrium phase transition of the contact process. Combining a real-time renormalization group, scaling theory, and large scale Monte-Carlo simulations in one and two dimensions, we show that the temporal disorder gives rise to an exotic critical point. At criticality, the effective noise amplitude diverges with increasing time scale, and the probability distribution of the density becomes infinitely broad, even on a logarithmic scale. Moreover, the average density and survival probability decay only logarithmically with time. This infinite-noise critical behavior can be understood as the temporal counterpart of infinite-randomness critical behavior in spatially disordered systems, but with exchanged roles of space and time. We also analyze the generality of our results, and we discuss potential experiments.

cond-mat.stat-mech

Random field disorder at an absorbing state transition in one and two dimensions

We investigate the behavior of nonequilibrium phase transitions under the influence of disorder that locally breaks the symmetry between two symmetrical macroscopic absorbing states. In equilibrium systems such "random-field" disorder destroys the phase transition in low dimensions by preventing spontaneous symmetry breaking. In contrast, we show here that random-field disorder fails to destroy the nonequilibrium phase transition of the one- and two-dimensional generalized contact process. Instead, it modifies the dynamics in the symmetry-broken phase. Specifically, the dynamics in the one-dimensional case is described by a Sinai walk of the domain walls between two different absorbing states. In the two-dimensional case, we map the dynamics onto that of the well studied low-temperature random-field Ising model. We also study the critical behavior of the nonequilibrium phase transition and characterize its universality class in one dimension. We support our results by large-scale Monte Carlo simulations, and we discuss the applicability of our theory to other systems.

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