Ergotropy, bound energy and entanglement in 1D long range Kitaev model (2408.05063v1)

Abstract: Recently, a linear relationship between product of bound energy, a thermodynamic quantity, of a ground state with system size and square of half-chain entanglement entropy has been established for free fermionic chain with nearest neighbor hopping and conjectured to be true for all 1D conformal field theories [Phys. Rev. B, 107,075116(20230]. We probe this relationship in domain where conformal symmetry is broken using 1D Kitaev model with pairing term which decays with distance as a power-law with exponent $\alpha$. We analytically show that for $\alpha=1$, this relationship persists with same slope as found in $\alpha \to \infty$ case where conformal symmetry is unbroken. We recall that conformal symmetry is broken for $\alpha<3/2$ [Phys. Rev. Lett., 113,156402(2014)]. We numerically show that linearity persists for intermediate values of $\alpha$. The presence of long range pairing helps in extracting more energy for the work i.e. ergotropy. We show analytically that ergotropy increases logarithmically with system size for $\alpha=1$ and becomes proportional to system size for $\alpha=0$ (numerically).