Violation of the Entanglement Area Law in Bosonic Systems with Bose Surfaces: Possible Application to Bose Metals

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Abstract

We show the violation of the entanglement-area law for bosonic systems with Bose surfaces. For bosonic systems with gapless factorized energy dispersions on a $N^d$ Cartesian lattice in $d$-dimension, e.g., the exciton Bose liquid in two dimension, we explicitly show that a belt subsystem with width $L$ preserving translational symmetry along $d-1$ Cartesian axes has leading entanglement entropy $(N^{d-1}/3)\ln L$. Using this result, the strong subadditivity inequality, and lattice symmetries, we bound the entanglement entropy of a rectangular subsystem from below and above showing a logarithmic violation of the area law. For subsystems with a single flat boundary we also bound the entanglement entropy from below showing a logarithmic violation, and argue that the entanglement entropy of subsystems with arbitrary smooth boundaries are similarly bounded.

Authors

  • Hsin-Hua Lai

    Natl High Magnetic Field Lab

  • Kun Yang

    National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Department of Physics, Florida State University, Natl High Magnetic Field Lab and Department of Physics, FSU, Florida State University, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Department of Physics, Florida State University, Florida 32306, USA

  • Nickolas Bonesteel

    Dept. of Physics and NHMFL, Florida State University, Natl High Magnetic Field Lab and Department of Physics, FSU, Florida State University