Charge correlator expansion for free fermion negativity

Abstract

Logarithmic negativity is a widely used entanglement measure in quantum information theories, which can also be efficiently computed in quantum many-body systems by replica trick or by relating to correlation matrices. In this paper, we demonstrate that in free-fermion systems with conserved charge, R\'enyi and logarithmic negativity can be expanded by connected charge correlators, analogous to the case for entanglement entropy in the context of full counting statistics (FCS). We confirm the rapid convergence of this expansion in random all-connected Hamiltonian through numerical verification, especially for systems with only local hopping. We find that the replica trick that get logarithmic negativity from the limit of R\'enyi negativity is valid in this method only for translational invariant systems. Using this expansion, we analyze the scaling behavior of negativity in extensive free-fermion systems. In particular, in 1+1 dimensional free-fermion systems, we observe that the scaling behavior of negativity from our expansion is consistent with known results from the method with Toeplitz matrix. These findings provide insights into the entanglement properties of free-fermion systems, and demonstrate the efficacy of the expansion approach in studying entanglement measures.