Phase transition in the Rényi-Shannon entropy of Luttinger liquids

Jean-Marie Stéphan (1) , Grégoire Misguich (1) , Vincent Pasquier (1)

1 IPHT - Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681

The R\'enyi-Shannon entropy associated to critical quantum spins chain with central charge $c=1$ is shown to have a phase transition at some value $n_c$ of the R\'enyi parameter $n$ which depends on the Luttinger parameter (or compactification radius R). Using a new replica-free formulation, the entropy is expressed as a combination of single-sheet partition functions evaluated at $n-$ dependent values of the stiffness. The transition occurs when a vertex operator becomes relevant at the boundary. Our numerical results (exact diagonalizations for the XXZ and $J_1-J_2$ models) are in agreement with the analytical predictions: above $n_c=4/R^2$ the subleading and universal contribution to the entropy is $\ln(L)(R^2-1)/(4n-4)$ for open chains, and $\ln(R)/(1-n)$ for periodic ones (R=1 at the free fermion point). The replica approach used in previous works fails to predict this transition and turns out to be correct only for $n

Domaines: Electrons fortement corrélés [cond-mat.str-el]; Mécanique statistique [cond-mat.stat-mech]

Jean-Marie Stéphan, Grégoire Misguich, Vincent Pasquier. Phase transition in the Rényi-Shannon entropy of Luttinger liquids. Physical Review B: Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (1998-2015), 2011, 84 (19), pp.195128. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.84.195128⟩. ⟨hal-01586157⟩