Domain wall melting across a defect. (1st February 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Capizzi, Luca; Scopa, Stefano; Rottoli, Federico; Calabrese, Pasquale
• Is Part Of: Europhysics letters. Volume 141:Number 3(2023)
• Publication Date: 2023-02-01
• Subjects: Physics -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 530.05
• DOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/acb50a
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0295-5075

Abstract

Abstract: We study the melting of a domain wall in a free-fermionic chain with a localised impurity. We find that the defect enhances quantum correlations in such a way that even the smallest scatterer leads to a linear growth of the entanglement entropy contrasting the logarithmic behaviour in the clean system. Exploiting the hydrodynamic approach and the quasiparticle picture, we provide exact predictions for the evolution of the entanglement entropy for arbitrary bipartitions. In particular, the steady production of pairs at the defect gives rise to non-local correlations among distant points. We also characterise the subleading logarithmic corrections, highlighting some universal features.