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Logarithmic entanglement growth in two-dimensional disordered fermionic systems

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Abstract

We investigate the growth of the entanglement entropy $S_{\textrm{ent}}$ following global quenches in two-dimensional free fermion models with potential and bond disorder. For the potential disorder case, we show that an intermediate weak localization regime exists in which $S_{\textrm{ent}}(t)$ grows logarithmically in time $t$ before Anderson localization sets in. For the case of binary bond disorder near the percolation transition, we find additive logarithmic corrections to area and volume laws as well as a scaling at long times, which is consistent with an infinite randomness fixed point.

Authors

  • Jesko Sirker

    University of Manitoba, Univ of Manitoba

  • Yang Zhao

    Northwestern Polytechnical University