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Evolutional Entanglement in Nonequilibrium Processes

Quantum Physics 2009-11-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Entanglement in nonequilibrium systems is considered. A general definition for entanglement measure is introduced, which can be applied for characterizing the level of entanglement produced by arbitrary operators. Applying this definition to reduced density matrices makes it possible to measure the entanglement in nonequilibrium as well as in equilibrium statistical systems. An example of a multimode Bose-Einstein condensate is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0309037,
  title  = {Evolutional Entanglement in Nonequilibrium Processes},
  author = {V. I. Yukalov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0309037},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, Latex