Exact results for the entanglement across defects in critical chains

Ingo Peschel, Viktor Eisler

Published 2012-01-19, updated 2012-01-31Version 2

We consider fermionic and bosonic quantum chains where a defect separates two subsystems and compare the corresponding entanglement spectra. With these, we calculate their R\'enyi entanglement entropies and obtain analytical formulae for the continuously varying coefficient of the leading logarithmic term. For the bosonic case we also present numerical results.