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Entropy Suppression through Quantum Interference in Electric Pulses

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-11-28 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Nuclear Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

The Schwinger process in strong electric fields creates particles and antiparticles that are entangled. The entropy of entanglement between particles and antiparticles has been found to be equal to the statistical Gibbs entropy of the produced system. Here we study the effect of quantum interference in sequences of electric pulses, and show that quantum interference suppresses the entanglement entropy of the created quantum state. This is potentially relevant to quantum-enhanced classical communications. Our results can be extended to a wide variety of two-level quantum systems.

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@article{arxiv.2211.13347,
  title  = {Entropy Suppression through Quantum Interference in Electric Pulses},
  author = {Gerald V. Dunne and Adrien Florio and Dmitri E. Kharzeev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.13347},
  year   = {2022}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures, supplementary material: 3 pages, 1 figure

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