Detecting dimensional crossover and finite Hilbert space through entanglement entropies

Abstract

The information content of the two-particle one- and two-dimensional Calogero model is studied by using the von Neumann and Rényi entropies. The one-dimensional model is shown to have nonmonotonic entropies with finite values in the large-interaction-strength limit. On the other hand, the von Neumann entropy of the two-dimensional model with isotropic confinement is a monotone increasing function of the interaction strength which diverges logarithmically. By considering an anisotropic confinement in the two-dimensional case we show that the one-dimensional behavior is eventually reached when the anisotropy increases. The crossover from two to one dimensions is demonstrated by using the harmonic approximation and it is shown that the von Neumann divergence only occurs in the isotropic case. The Rényi entropies are used to highlight the structure of the model spectrum. In particular, it is shown that these entropies have a nonmonotonic and nonanalytical behavior in the neighborhood of the interaction strength parameter values where the Hilbert space and, consequently, the spectrum of the reduced density matrix are both finite.