Conserved quantities for Generalized Gibbs Ensemble from Entanglement

Abstract: Relaxed quantum systems with conservation laws are believed to be approximated by the Generalized Gibbs Ensemble (GGE), which incorporates the constraints of certain conserved quantities serving as integrals of motion. By drawing analogy between reduced density matrix and GGE, we demonstrate for free fermions a generic entanglement Hamiltonian superdensity matrix (EHSM) framework for determining the set of conserved quantities in GGE. The framework proposes that such conserved quantities are linear superposition of eigenstate entanglement Hamiltonians of a larger auxiliary system, where the eigenstates are Fock states occupying the common eigenmodes. For 1D homogeneous free fermions with periodic boundary condition, which maps to 1D hardcore bosons, these conserved quantities lead to an non-Abelian GGE, which predicts the relaxation of both fermion and boson bilinears more accurately than the conventional Abelian GGE. Generalization of the framework to interacting models may provide novel numerical insights for quantum integrability.