Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-27-2008

Publication Title

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Department

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Abstract

We investigate disordered one- and two-dimensional Heisenberg spin lattices across a transition from integrability to quantum chaos from both a statistical many-body and a quantum-information perspective. Special emphasis is devoted to quantitatively exploring the interplay between eigen- vector statistics, delocalization, and entanglement in the presence of nontrivial symmetries. The implications of basis dependence of state delocalization indicators (such as the number of principal components) is addressed, and a measure of relative delocalization is proposed in order to robustly characterize the onset of chaos in the presence of disorder. Both standard multipartite and gen- eralized entanglement are investigated in a wide parameter regime by using a family of spin- and fermion- purity measures, their dependence on delocalization and on energy spectrum statistics be- ing examined. A distinctive correlation between entanglement, delocalization, and integrability is uncovered, which may be generic to systems described by the two-body random ensemble and may point to a new diagnostic tool for quantum chaos. Analytical estimates for typical entanglement of random pure states restricted to a proper subspace of the full Hilbert space are also established and compared with random matrix theory predictions.

DOI

10.1103/PhysRevE.77.021106

Original Citation

Brown WG, Santos LF, Starling DJ, Viola L. Quantum chaos, delocalization, and entanglement in disordered Heisenberg models. Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2008 Feb;77(2 Pt 1):021106. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.77.021106. Epub 2008 Feb 7. PMID: 18351986.

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