Scaling of the von Neumann entropy across a finite temperature phase transition

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The spectrum of the reduced density matrix and the temperature dependence of the von Neumann entropy (VNE) are analytically obtained for a system of hard core bosons on a complete graph which exhibits a phase transition to a Bose-Einstein condensate at T=Tc. It is demonstrated that the VNE undergoes a crossover from purely logarithmic at T=0 to purely linear in block size n behaviour for T≥ Tc. For intermediate temperatures, VNE is a sum of two contributions which are identified as the classical (Gibbs) and the quantum (due to entanglement) parts of the von Neumann entropy.