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Magnetic Susceptibility as a Macrosopic Entaglement Witness

Quantum Physics 2009-11-11 v3

Abstract

We show that magnetic susceptibility can reveal spin entanglement between individual constituents of a solid, while magnetisation describes their local properties. We then show that these two thermodynamical quantities satisfy complementary relation in the quantum-mechanical sense. It describes sharing of (quantum) information in the solid between spin entanglement and local properties of its individual constituents. Magnetic susceptibility is shown to be a macroscopic spin entanglement witness that can be applied without complete knowledge of the specific model (Hamiltonian) of the solid.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0503037,
  title  = {Magnetic Susceptibility as a Macrosopic Entaglement Witness},
  author = {M. Wiesniak and V. Vedral and C. Brukner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0503037},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 Pages, 2 figures, revtex4