Mao Bin-Bin, Ding Yi-Ming, Wang Zhe, Hu Shijie, Yan Zheng
Department of Physics, School of Science and Research Center for Industries of the Future, Westlake University, Hangzhou, China.
School of Foundational Education, University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Qingdao, China.
Nat Commun. 2025 Mar 24;16(1):2880. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-58058-0.
The reduced density matrix (RDM) plays a key role in quantum entanglement and measurement, as it allows the extraction of almost all physical quantities related to the reduced degrees of freedom. However, restricted by the degrees of freedom in the environment, the total system size is often limited, let alone the subsystem. To address this challenge, we propose a quantum Monte Carlo scheme with a low technical barrier, enabling precise extraction of the RDM. To demonstrate the power of the method, we present the fine levels of the entanglement spectrum (ES), which is the logarithmic eigenvalues of the RDM. We clearly show the ES for a 1D ladder with a long entangled boundary, and that for the 2D Heisenberg model with a tower of states. Furthermore, we put forward an efficient way to restore the entanglement Hamiltonian in operator-form from the sampled RDM data. Our simulation results, utilizing unprecedentedly large system sizes, establish a practical computational framework for determining entanglement quantities based on the RDM, such as the ES, particularly in scenarios where the environment has a huge number of degrees of freedom.
约化密度矩阵(RDM)在量子纠缠和测量中起着关键作用,因为它能够提取几乎所有与约化自由度相关的物理量。然而,受环境自由度的限制,整个系统的规模往往有限,更不用说子系统了。为应对这一挑战,我们提出了一种技术门槛较低的量子蒙特卡罗方案,能够精确提取RDM。为展示该方法的威力,我们给出了纠缠谱(ES)的精细能级,它是RDM的对数本征值。我们清晰地展示了具有长纠缠边界的一维梯子的ES,以及具有一系列态的二维海森堡模型的ES。此外,我们提出了一种从采样的RDM数据中以算符形式恢复纠缠哈密顿量的有效方法。我们利用前所未有的大系统规模进行的模拟结果,建立了一个基于RDM确定纠缠量(如ES)的实用计算框架,特别是在环境具有大量自由度的情况下。