Eigenstate capacity and Page curve in fermionic Gaussian states
Budhaditya Bhattacharjee, Pratik Nandy, Tanay Pathak
Abstract
Capacity of entanglement (CoE), an information-theoretic measure of entanglement, defined as the variance of modular Hamiltonian, is known to capture the deviation from the maximal entanglement. We derive an exact expression for the average eigenstate CoE in fermionic Gaussian states as a finite series, valid for arbitrary bi-partition of the total system. Further, we consider the complex Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (${\mathrm{SYK}}_{2}$) model in the thermodynamic limit and we obtain a closed-form expression of average CoE. In this limit, the variance of the average CoE becomes independent of the system size. Moreover, when the subsystem size is half of the total system, the leading volume-law coefficient approaches a value of ${\ensuremath{\pi}}^{2}/8\ensuremath{-}1$. We identify this as a distinguishing feature between integrable and quantum-chaotic systems. We confirm our analytical results by numerical computations.