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Entanglement patterns reveal essential information on many-body states and provide a way to classify quantum phases of matter. However, experimental studies of many-body entanglement remain scarce due to their unscalable nature. The present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-06 Szczepan Głodzik , Kim Pöyhönen , Ali G. Moghaddam , Teemu Ojanen

In this paper, we study the entanglement entropy in string theory in the simplest setup of dividing the nine dimensional space into two halves. This corresponds to the leading quantum correction to the horizon entropy in string theory on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-07 Song He , Tokiro Numasawa , Tadashi Takayanagi , Kento Watanabe

We calculate the hybrid entanglement entropy between coin and walker degrees of freedom in a non-unitary quantum walk. The model possesses a joint parity and time-reversal symmetry or PT-symmetry and supports topological phases when this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Gene M. M. Itable , Francis N. C. Paraan

Entanglement entropy has proven to be an extremely useful concept in quantum field theory. Gauge theories are of particular interest, but for these systems the entanglement entropy is not clearly defined because the physical Hilbert space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-29 William Donnelly

Quantum phase transitions occur at zero temperature and involve the appearance of long-range correlations. These correlations are not due to thermal fluctuations but to the intricate structure of a strongly entangled ground state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Vidal , J. I. Latorre , E. Rico , A. Kitaev

A new numerical approach to entanglement entropies of the Renyi type is proposed for one-dimensional quantum field theories. The method extends the truncated conformal spectrum approach and we will demonstrate that it is especially suited…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-23 T. Palmai

The trace over the degrees of freedom located in a subset of the space transforms the vacuum state into a mixed density matrix with non zero entropy. This is usually called entanglement entropy, and it is known to be divergent in quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Casini , M. Huerta

We analyze entanglement between quantum interacting fields. In particular, we use R\'enyi entropy to quantify the entanglement between the fields in the ground state of the linear $\sigma$ model. We adopt R\'enyi entropy because the failure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Daniele Teresi , Giuseppe Compagno

The entanglement properties of systems in which elastic and inelastic reactions occur in projectile-target interactions is studied. A new measure of entanglement, the scattering entropy, based on the unitarity of the $S-$matrix (probability…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-27 Gerald A. Miller

We study the entanglement entropy arising from coherent states and one--particle states. We show that it is possible to define a finite entanglement entropy by subtracting the vacuum entropy from that of the considered states, when the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric Benedict , So-Young Pi

Electronic quantum entanglement between the central chain and the two electrodes in an infinite one-dimensional two-probe device system is studied. The entanglement entropy is calculated employing the nonequilibrium Green's function method…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Yao-Sheng Li , Wen-Long You , Xue-Feng Wang

This review focuses on the field of quantum entanglement applied to condensed matter physics systems with strong correlations, a domain which has rapidly grown over the last decade. By tracing out part of the degrees of freedom of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-11 Nicolas Laflorencie

In this article, we present a novel approach to investigating entanglement in the context of quantum computing. Our methodology involves analyzing reduced density matrices at different stages of a quantum algorithm's execution and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Ruge Lin

We review studies of entanglement entropy in systems with quenched randomness, concentrating on universal behavior at strongly random quantum critical points. The disorder-averaged entanglement entropy provides insight into the quantum…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-13 Gil Refael , Joel E. Moore

We present a theoretical study of the relationship between entanglement and entropy in multi-qubit quantum optical systems. Specifically we investigate quantitative relations between the concurrence and linear entropy for a two-qubit mixed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexandra Olaya-Castro , Neil F. Johnson , Luis Quiroga

Understanding the dependence of entanglement entropy on the renormalized mass in quantum field theories can provide insight into phenomena such as quantum phase transitions, since the mass varies in a singular way near the transition. Here…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-12-11 Mark P. Hertzberg

The entanglement entropy of an annulus is examined in a three-dimensional system with or without a gap. For a free massive scalar field theory, we numerically calculate the mutual information across an annulus. We also study the holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Yuki Nakaguchi , Tatsuma Nishioka

We consider the situation when a globally defined four-dimensional field system is separated on two entangled sub-systems by a dynamical (random) two-dimensional surface. The reduced density matrix averaged over ensemble of random surfaces…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Sergey N. Solodukhin

We compare the one-loop corrections to the entropy of a black hole, from quantum fields of spin zero, one-half, and one, to the entropy of entanglement of the fields. For fields of spin zero and one-half the black hole entropy is identical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Kabat

Many quantum information theoretic quantities are similar to and/or inspired by thermodynamic quantities, with entanglement entropy being a well-known example. In this paper, we study a less well-known example, capacity of entanglement,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-03 Jan de Boer , Jarkko Järvelä , Esko Keski-Vakkuri