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arxiv: 1208.0735 · v1 · pith:KPBDXGRMnew · submitted 2012-08-03 · ❄️ cond-mat.str-el · cond-mat.stat-mech· quant-ph

Scaling of the R\'enyi entropies in gapped quantum spin systems: Entanglement-driven order beyond symmetry breaking

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We investigate the scaling of the R\'enyi $\alpha$-entropies in one-dimensional gapped quantum spin models. We show that the block entropies with $\alpha > 2$ violate the area law monotonicity and exhibit damped oscillations. Depending on the existence of a factorized ground state, the oscillatory behavior occurs either below factorization or it extends indefinitely. The anomalous scaling corresponds to an entanglement-driven order that is independent of ground-state degeneracy and is revealed by a nonlocal order parameter defined as the sum of the single-copy entanglement over all blocks.

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