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Fermionic entanglement in the Lipkin model

Quantum Physics 2019-12-11 v2

Abstract

We examine the fermionic entanglement in the ground state of the fermionic Lipkin model and its relation with bipartite entanglement. It is first shown that the one-body entanglement entropy, which quantifies the minimum distance to a fermionic Gaussian state, behaves similarly to the mean-field order parameter and is essentially proportional to the total bipartite entanglement between the upper and lower modes, a quantity meaningful only in the fermionic realization of the model. We also analyze the entanglement of the reduced state of four single-particle modes (two up-down pairs), showing that its fermionic concurrence is strongly peaked at the phase transition and behaves differently from the corresponding up-down entanglement. We finally show that the first measures and the up-down reduced entanglement can be correctly described through a basic mean-field approach supplemented with symmetry restoration, whereas the concurrence requires at least the inclusion of RPA-type correlations for a proper prediction. Fermionic separability is also discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1908.08582,
  title  = {Fermionic entanglement in the Lipkin model},
  author = {M. Di Tullio and R. Rossignoli and M. Cerezo and N. Gigena},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.08582},
  year   = {2019}
}

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13 pages, 6 figures, final version

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