Angular-time evolution and edge-spin dynamics in the Haldane phase of the S=1 bilinear-biquadratic chain

Abstract

We investigate the angular-time evolution -- a parameter-time evolution generated by the entanglement Hamiltonian -- for the bipartitioned ground state of the S=1 bilinear-biquadratic chain under the open boundary condition with the up edge spin. Using a matrix-product-state representation of the ground-state wavefunction, we calculate the angular-time spin correlation functions $\langle S_n^{α}(τ)S_{n'}^{α}(0)\rangle$ in the Haldane phase, and extract its dominant oscillation mode attributed to the nearly two-fold-degenerate entanglement spectrum associated with the $\mathbb{Z}_2 \times \mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry. We also compute the effective edge-spin dynamics under a uniform magnetic field applied to the system part and numerically verify its correspondence to the dominant angular-time mode by precisely comparing the subsystem-size dependence of their amplitudes.