Dynamical mean-field theory for R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropy and mutual Information in Hubbard Model

TL;DR

This paper introduces a path integral method within dynamical mean field theory to efficiently compute Rényi entanglement entropy and mutual information in the Hubbard model, revealing insights into entanglement scaling and phase transitions.

Contribution

It develops a novel path integral approach to measure entanglement in fermionic systems within DMFT, enabling analysis of entanglement entropy and mutual information in Hubbard models.

Findings

Efficient computation of second Rényi entropy as a function of subsystem size.

Observation of crossover from volume-law to boundary-law entanglement entropy.

Analysis of mutual information across the Mott transition.

Abstract

Quantum entanglement, lacking any classical counterpart, provides a fundamental new route to characterize the quantum nature of many-body states. In this work, we discuss an implementation of a new path integral method [Phys. Rev. Res. 2, 033505 (2020)] for fermions to compute entanglement for extended subsystems in the Hubbard model within dynamical mean field theory (DMFT) in one and two dimensions. The new path integral formulation measures entanglement by applying a ``kick" to the underlying interacting fermions. We show that the R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropy can be extracted efficiently within the DMFT framework by integrating over the strength of the kick term. Using this method, we compute the second R\'{e}nyi entropy as a function of subsystem size for metallic and Mott insulating phases of the Hubbard model. We explore the thermal entropy to entanglement crossover in the subsystem R\'{e}nyi entropy in the correlated metallic phase. We show that the subsystem-size scaling of second R\'{e}nyi entropy is well described by the crossover formula which interpolates between the volume-law thermal R\'{e}nyi entropy and the universal boundary-law R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropy with logarithmic violation, as predicted by conformal field theory. We also study the mutual information across the Mott metal-insulator transition.