2023/02/28 by Sean McBride, McBride, Sean, Fernando Iniguez +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum many-body systems #Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2303.00018
openalex publication_date 2023/02/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
It was recently noted that the entanglement entropy for a subsystem of a chaotic eigenstate exhibits an enhanced correction when the subsystem approaches a phase transition at half the total system size. This enhanced correction was derived for general subsystems by Dong and Wang by summing over noncrossing permutations, which can be thought of as ``saddles'' either in a sum emerging from averaging over Wick contractions or in an analogous gravitational calculation. We extend these results to the case of entanglement negativity, an entanglement measure defined on a bipartite density matrix. We focus on a particular transition previously studied in a toy model of JT gravity, one for which the sum over permutations was found to give similar (or even stronger) enhanced corrections. We derive and resum the relevant permutations to give a form for the averaged negativity spectrum, reproducing the gravitational answer for some quantities and finding tension with other quantities, namely the partially transposed entropy. Along the way, we extend the results of Dong and Wang to the case of n < 1 Rényi entropy, showing that it always receives volume law corrections.