Wang Fo-Hong, Xu Xiao Yan
Key Laboratory of Artificial Structures and Quantum Control (Ministry of Education), School of Physics and Astronomy & Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China.
Hefei National Laboratory, Hefei, 230088, China.
Nat Commun. 2025 Mar 17;16(1):2637. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-57971-8.
Many-body entanglement unveils additional aspects of quantum matter and offers insights into strongly correlated physics. While ground-state entanglement has received much attention in the past decade, the study of mixed-state quantum entanglement using negativity in interacting fermionic systems remains largely unexplored. We demonstrate that the partially transposed density matrix of interacting fermions, similar to their reduced density matrix, can be expressed as a weighted sum of Gaussian states describing free fermions, enabling the calculation of rank-n Rényi negativity within the determinant quantum Monte Carlo framework. We calculate the rank-two Rényi negativity for the half-filled Hubbard model and the spinless t-V model. Our calculation reveals that the area law coefficient of the Rényi negativity for the spinless t-V model has a logarithmic finite-size scaling at the finite-temperature transition point. Our work contributes to the calculation of entanglement and sets the stage for future studies on quantum entanglement in various fermionic many-body mixed states.
多体纠缠揭示了量子物质的其他方面,并为强关联物理提供了见解。虽然基态纠缠在过去十年中受到了广泛关注,但在相互作用的费米子系统中使用负性来研究混合态量子纠缠在很大程度上仍未得到探索。我们证明,与相互作用费米子的约化密度矩阵类似,其部分转置密度矩阵可以表示为描述自由费米子的高斯态的加权和,从而能够在行列式量子蒙特卡罗框架内计算秩-n 雷尼负性。我们计算了半填充哈伯德模型和无自旋 t-V 模型的秩二雷尼负性。我们的计算表明,无自旋 t-V 模型的雷尼负性的面积律系数在有限温度转变点具有对数有限尺寸标度。我们的工作有助于纠缠的计算,并为未来研究各种费米子多体混合态中的量子纠缠奠定了基础。