Inhomogeneous XX spin chains and quasi-exactly solvable models

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/ABB237zbMATH Open1459.82040arXiv2007.00369OpenAlexW3039811709MaRDI QIDQ5856904

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Abstract: We establish a direct connection between inhomogeneous XX spin chains (or free fermion systems with nearest-neighbors hopping) and certain QES models on the line giving rise to a family of weakly orthogonal polynomials. We classify all such models and their associated XX chains, which include two families related to the Lam'e (finite gap) quantum potential on the line. For one of these chains, we numerically compute the R'enyi bipartite entanglement entropy at half filling and derive an asymptotic approximation thereof by studying the model's continuous limit, which turns out to describe a massless Dirac fermion on a suitably curved background. We show that the leading behavior of the entropy is that of a $c=1$ critical system, although there is a subleading $log(logN)$ correction (where $N$ is the number of sites) unusual in this type of models.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00369

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