Thermally Activated Long-Range Entanglement from Non-Abelian Conservation Laws
Abstract
Thermal noise ordinarily suppresses quantum entanglement. We show that a strong non-Abelian conservation law can convert local thermal fluctuations into an unbounded operational resource. For a broad class of finite-range -invariant spin chains restricted to the global-singlet sector, an explicit representation-space protocol yields , and hence , throughout a finite high-temperature interval. Local thermal fluctuations produce subsystem spins , whose globally locked irreducible representations contain ebits. An exactly solvable dimer chain exhibits a sharper effect: its zero-temperature state is unentangled across the cut, whereas every fixed produces , with crossover scale . Exact diagonalization of a nonintegrable chain is consistent with the predicted scaling. Thus heating can activate system-size-diverging distillable entanglement across a macroscopic bipartition when thermalization is confined by a non-Abelian conservation law.
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@article{arxiv.2607.12710,
title = {Thermally Activated Long-Range Entanglement from Non-Abelian Conservation Laws},
author = {Shuai Zeng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.12710},
year = {2026}
}