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.

*National Science Foundation through Grant No. DMR- 1004545 and U.S. DOE Grant No. DE-FG02-97ER45639.

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