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JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL PHYSICS
Volume 133, Issue 2, Pages 347-377Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10955-008-9617-9
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AKLT; Density matrix; Entanglement; Valence Bond Solid
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We study a 1-dimensional AKLT spin chain, consisting of spins S in the bulk and S/2 at both ends. The unique ground state of this AKLT model is described by the Valence-Bond-Solid (VBS) state. We investigate the density matrix of a contiguous block of bulk spins in this ground state. It is shown that the density matrix is a projector onto a subspace of dimension (S + 1)(2). This subspace is described by non-zero eigenvalues and corresponding eigenvectors of the density matrix. We prove that for large block the von Neumann entropy coincides with Renyi entropy and is equal to ln (S + 1)(2).
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