Hierarchies of Gaussian multimode entanglement from thermodynamic quantifiers
Abstract
We develop a thermodynamic characterization of multimode entanglement in pure continuous-variable systems by quantifying the gap between globally and locally extractable work (ergotropy). For arbitrary pure multimode Gaussian states, we prove that the -local ergotropic gap is a faithful entanglement monotone across any bipartition and constitutes a functionally independent upper bound to the Renyi-2 entanglement entropy. We further introduce the -ergotropic score, the minimum -local ergotropic gap, and show that it faithfully quantifies multimode entanglement across partitions. For pure three-mode Gaussian states, we derive its closed-form relation with the geometric measure for genuine multimode entanglement , and total Gaussian multimode entanglement . For systems with more than three modes, the -ergotropic score becomes a functionally independent measure of multimode entanglement to the standard geometric measures. Our results reveal a direct operational hierarchy linking Gaussian multimode entanglement to work extraction under locality constraints, and provide a computable and experimentally accessible thermodynamic framework for characterizing quantum correlations.
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@article{arxiv.2602.18816,
title = {Hierarchies of Gaussian multimode entanglement from thermodynamic quantifiers},
author = {Mrinmoy Samanta and Sudipta Mondal and Ayan Patra and Saptarshi Roy and Aditi Sen De},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.18816},
year = {2026}
}
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6+13 pages, 2 figures