Connecting Entanglement Entropy Growth and Local Integrals of Motion in the Disordered Fermi-Hubbard Model

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We study a one-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model with disorder in charge and spin degrees of freedom. We calculate the time dependence of the entanglement entropy. While previous research on disordered interacting systems has typically focused on systems with either charge or spin, our model enables us to explore the interplay between charge and spin in shaping the behavior of entanglement. We use a method that identifies optimally local charge- and spin-specific integrals of motion. We ask how the locality level of these integrals of motion influences the capacity of low-order terms in the l-bit Hamiltonian to capture the entanglement entropy. Our results show that increasing the locality level improves the accuracy of low-order terms in capturing entanglement entropy dynamics. With equally strong charge and spin disorder, the behavior of the entanglement entropy closely resembles that observed in single-degree-of-freedom systems, and the l-bit Hamiltonian truncated at second order accurately captures this behavior.

Author Keywords: Entanglement Entropy, Fermi-Hubbard Model, Hungarian Algorithm, l-bit Hamiltonian, Local Integrals of Motion, Many-Body Localization

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    Contributors
    Creator (cre): Nokhostin Helm, Ahad
    Thesis advisor (ths): Wortis, Rachel
    Degree committee member (dgc): Atkinson, Bill
    Degree committee member (dgc): Gaspari, Franco
    Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
    Date Issued
    2025
    Date (Unspecified)
    2025
    Place Published
    Peterborough, ON
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    131 pages
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    Copyright is held by the author, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted.
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    TC-OPET-11286
    Publisher
    Trent University
    Degree
    Master of Science (M.Sc.): Materials Science