Entanglement entropy of a three-spin-interacting spin chain with a time-reversal-breaking impurity at one boundary

Physical Review. E
Tanay Nag, Atanu Rajak

Abstract

We investigate the effect of a time-reversal-breaking impurity term (of strength λ_{d}) on both the equilibrium and nonequilibrium critical properties of entanglement entropy (EE) in a three-spin-interacting transverse Ising model, which can be mapped to a p-wave superconducting chain with next-nearest-neighbor hopping and interaction. Importantly, we find that the logarithmic scaling of the EE with block size remains unaffected by the application of the impurity term, although, the coefficient (i.e., central charge) varies logarithmically with the impurity strength for a lower range of λ_{d} and eventually saturates with an exponential damping factor [∼exp(-λ_{d})] for the phase boundaries shared with the phase containing two Majorana edge modes. On the other hand, it receives a linear correction in term of λ_{d} for an another phase boundary. Finally, we focus to study the effect of the impurity in the time evolution of the EE for the critical quenching case where the impurity term is applied only to the final Hamiltonian. Interestingly, it has been shown that for all the phase boundaries, contrary to the equilibrium case, the saturation value of the EE increases logarithmically with the strength of impurity in a certain regi...Continue Reading

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