Exploring Entanglement Characteristics in Disordered Free Fermion Systems through Random Bi-Partitioning

TL;DR

This paper examines how entanglement entropy behaves in disordered free fermion systems across phase transitions, revealing volume-law scaling and the influence of correlations through numerical analysis of various dimensions.

Contribution

It introduces a random bi-partitioning approach to study entanglement in disordered fermion systems and characterizes its scaling behavior across phases.

Findings

Entanglement entropy follows volume-law scaling in both phases.

Short and long-range correlations significantly affect entanglement.

Subsystem site distribution impacts entanglement properties.

Abstract

This study investigates the entanglement properties of disordered free fermion systems undergoing an Anderson phase transition from a delocalized to a localized phase. The entanglement entropy is employed to quantify the degree of entanglement, with the system randomly divided into two subsystems. To explore this phenomenon, one-dimensional tight-binding fermion models and Anderson models in one, two, and three dimensions are utilized. Comprehensive numerical calculations reveal that the entanglement entropy, determined using random bi-partitioning, follows a volume-law scaling in both the delocalized and localized phases, expressed as $EE \propto L^D$, where $D$ represents the dimension of the system. Furthermore, the role of short and long-range correlations in the entanglement entropy and the impact of the distribution of subsystem sites are analyzed.