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Entanglement Hamiltonian in the non-Hermitian SSH model

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arxiv 2402.04776 v1 pith:54SHJKTS submitted 2024-02-07 quant-ph cond-mat.stat-mechhep-th

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keywords entanglementhamiltonianlatticenon-hermitianbisognano-wichmannchaincriticalitygapped
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Entanglement Hamiltonians provide the most comprehensive characterisation of entanglement in extended quantum systems. A key result in unitary quantum field theories is the Bisognano-Wichmann theorem, which establishes the locality of the entanglement Hamiltonian. In this work, our focus is on the non-Hermitian Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) chain. We study the entanglement Hamiltonian both in a gapped phase and at criticality. In the gapped phase we find that the lattice entanglement Hamiltonian is compatible with a lattice Bisognano-Wichmann result, with an entanglement temperature linear in the lattice index. At the critical point, we identify a new imaginary chemical potential term absent in unitary models. This operator is responsible for the negative entanglement entropy observed in the non-Hermitian SSH chain at criticality.

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