This webpage collects resources regarding the rainbow
state, a quantum many-body state presenting very interesting
entanglement properties. Here you can see a snapshot.
What is the rainbow state?
From conformal to volume-law for the entanglement entropy in
exponentially deformed critical chains,
G. Ramírez, J. Rodríguez-Laguna, G. Sierra,
JSTAT P10004
(2014)
or ArXiv:1407.3456. The original article introducing the term rainbow, and
discussing its origin from the strong disorder
renormalization group.
Entanglement over the rainbow,
G. Ramírez, J. Rodríguez-Laguna, G. Sierra,
JSTAT
P06002 (2015)
or ArXiv:1503.02695. First weak inhomogeneity analysis of the rainbow state,
conjecturing the relation to conformal field theory.
The rainbow and field theory
More on the rainbow chain: entanglement, space-time
geometry and thermal states,
J. Rodríguez-Laguna, J. Dubail, G. Ramirez, P. Calabrese, G. Sierra,
J. Phys.
A 50, 164001 (2017)
or
ArXiv:1611.08559. Description of the rainbow system as a
conformal field theory on hyperbolic spacetime.
Entanglement Hamiltonian and entanglement contour in
inhomogeneous 1D systems,
E. Tonni, J. Rodríguez-Laguna, G. Sierra,
JSTAT
043105 (2018)
or ArXiv:1712.03557. Evaluation of the entanglement contour, hamiltonian y
spectrum for a CFT on a curved spacetime, using the rainbow
system as an example.
Piercing the rainbow: entanglement on an inhomogeneous
spin chain with a defect, N. Samos Sáenz de Buruaga, S.N.
Santalla, J. Rodríguez-Laguna, G. Sierra,
Phys.
Rev. B 101, 205121 (2020) or
ArXiv:1912.10788 Entanglement transitions can be found by tuning the
central hopping of a rainbow system.
Symmetry protected phases in inhomogeneous spin
chains, N. Samos Sáenz de Buruaga, S.N. Santalla, J.
Rodríguez-Laguna, G.
Sierra, JSTAT
093102 (2019)
or ArXiv:1812.04869. Folding the rainbow state, and introducing symmetry
protected topological phases by inserting a spare site at
the center.
Casimir forces on deformed fermionic chains, B. Mula, S.N.
Santalla, J. Rodríguez-Laguna,
Phys. Rev.
Research 3, 013062 (2021) or
ArXiv:2004.12456. Extension of Cardy's expression for the Casimir force
in a conformal system to inhomogeneous 1+1D systems, using
the rainbow system as an example.
Entanglement in non-critical inhomogeneous quantum chains,
N. Samos Sáenz de Buruaga, S.N. Santalla, J.
Rodríguez-Laguna, G.
Sierra, Phys.
Rev. B 104, 195147 (2021)
or ArXiv:2107.12113. The rainbow state in presence of a mass, showing that it
preserves its entanglement properties within a correlation
length of the center.
Depletion in fermionic chains with inhomogeneous hoppings,
B. Mula, N. Samos Sáenz de Buruaga, G. Sierra, S.N.
Santalla, J. Rodríguez-Laguna,
Phys.
Rev. B 106, 224204 (2022)
or ArXiv:2209.10624.
The fermionic rainbow state away from half-filling
presents regions of depletion, which we characterize using
an effective Schrödinger equation.
The rainbow under disorder
Entanglement in correlated random spin chains, RNA
folding and kinetic roughening,
J. Rodríguez-Laguna, S.N. Santalla, G. Ramírez, G. Sierra,
New J.
Phys. 18, 073025 (2016) or
ArXiv:1601.03408. Phase diagram of the fermionic chains with strongly
correlated disorder, showing that in a certain regime they
approach the rainbow state.
Unusual area-law violation in random inhomogeneous
systems, V. Alba, S.N. Santalla, P. Ruggiero, J.
Rodríguez-Laguna, P. Calabrese, G. Sierra,
JSTAT
023105 (2019)
or ArXiv:1807.04179. Rainbow chain with disordered hoppings, showing the
appearance of a new phase.
Stability of long-range entanglement
Engineering large end-to-end correlations in finite
fermionic chains, H. Santos, J.E. Alvarellos, J. Rodríguez-Laguna,
Phys.
Rev. B 98, 245121 (2018) or
ArXiv:1809.06246. Analysing the tradeoff between energy gap and end-to-end
correlation in fermionic chains with inhomogeneous
hoppings.
Link representation of the entanglement entropies for all
bipartitions, S. Singha Roy, S.N. Santalla, G. Sierra, J.
Rodríguez-Laguna,
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 54, 305301 (2021) or
ArXiv:2103.08929. Numerical algorithms in order to evaluate the
entanglement links, for gaussian states and matrix product
states.
Entanglement links and the quasiparticle picture, S.N.
Santalla, G. Ramírez, S. Singha Roy, G. Sierra, J.
Rodríguez-Laguna, Phys.Rev.
B 107, L121114 (2023)
or ArXiv:2208.03766.
Dynamics of the rainbow state under a quench to a
homogeneous Hamiltonian, using the entanglement links in
order to interpret the evolution of the entanglement entropy.
Talks
STATPHYS 28, Tokyo: Entanglement over the rainbows
STATPHYS 27, Buenos Aires: Entanglement over the rainbow:
statistical mechanics of the area law