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Public Seminar of RPg Student: Measuring Entanglement Entropy via Quantum Monte Carlo Method

Speaker Mr. Tim Lok CHAU
Affiliation The University of Hong Kong
Date June 16, 2025 (Monday)
Time 10:30 a.m.
Venue Room 522, 5/F, Chong Yuet Ming Physics Building, The University of Hong Kong

Abstract

Entanglement entropy (EE) quantifies quantum entanglement in many-body systems and captures universal properties of quantum ground states. Obtaining this quantity requires an unbiased numerical approach. While methods such as exact diagonalization (ED) and the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) can directly extract the ground-state wavefunction and calculate EE, they are limited to small system sizes or one-dimensional systems due to the exponential growth of the Hilbert space. In contrast, quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) maintains a polynomial computational complexity when calculating EE. A non-equilibrium method in QMC has been developed to extract EE, and we will explain how this approach precisely measures EE and its application.

 

Anyone interested is welcome to attend.