Many-body entanglement in condensed matter systems can be diagnosed from equilibrium response functions through the use of entanglement witnesses and operator-specific quantum bounds. Here, we investigate the applicability of this approach for detecting entangled states in quantum systems driven out of equilibrium. We use a multipartite entanglement witness, the quantum Fisher information, to study the dynamics of a paradigmatic fermion chain undergoing a time-dependent change of the Coulomb interaction. Our results show that the quantum Fisher information is able to witness distinct signatures of multipartite entanglement both near and far from equilibrium that are robust against decoherence. We discuss implications of these findings for probing entanglement in light-driven quantum materials with time-resolved optical and x-ray scattering methods.
@article{arxiv.2209.02081,
title = {Witnessing nonequilibrium entanglement dynamics in a strongly correlated fermionic chain},
author = {Denitsa R. Baykusheva and Mona H. Kalthoff and Damian Hofmann and Martin Claassen and Dante M. Kennes and Michael A. Sentef and Matteo Mitrano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.02081},
year = {2023}
}