Entanglement spectroscopy of SU(2)-broken phases in two dimensions

In magnetically ordered systems, the breaking of SU(2) symmetry in the thermodynamic limit is associated with the appearance of a special type of low-lying excitations in finite-size energy spectra, the so-called tower of states (TOS). In the present work, we numerically demonstrate that there is a...

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Published in:Physical review. B, Condensed matter and materials physics Condensed matter and materials physics, 2013-10, Vol.88 (14)
Main Authors: Kolley, F, Depenbrock, S, McCulloch, I P, Schollwock, U, Alba, V
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Condensed matter
Entanglement
Mathematical models
Phases
Spectroscopy
Thermodynamics
Towers
Two dimensional
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Summary:In magnetically ordered systems, the breaking of SU(2) symmetry in the thermodynamic limit is associated with the appearance of a special type of low-lying excitations in finite-size energy spectra, the so-called tower of states (TOS). In the present work, we numerically demonstrate that there is a correspondence between the SU(2) tower of states and the lower part of the ground-state entanglement spectrum (ES). Using state-of-the-art density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) calculations, we examine the ES of the 2D antiferromagnetic J sub(1) -J sub(2) Heisenberg model on both the triangular and kagome lattice. At large ferromagnetic J sub(2), the model exhibits a magnetically ordered ground state. Correspondingly, its ES contains a family of low-lying levels that are reminiscent of the energy tower of states. Their behavior (level counting, finite-size scaling in the thermodynamic limit) sharply reflects TOS features, and is characterized in terms of an effective entanglement Hamiltonian that we provide. At large system sizes, TOS levels are divided from the rest by an entanglement gap. Our analysis suggests that (TOS) entanglement spectroscopy provides an alternative tool for detecting and characterizing SU(2)-broken phases using DMRG.
ISSN:1098-0121
1550-235X
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.88.144426