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This paper addresses the following main question: Do we have a theoretical understanding of entanglement applicable to a full variety of physical settings? It is clear that not only the assumption of distinguishability, but also the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerardo Ortiz , Rolando Somma , Howard Barnum , Emanuel Knill , Lorenza Viola

Entanglement is a physical resource of a quantum system just like mass, charge or energy. Moreover it is an essential tool for many purposes of nowadays quantum information processing, e.g. quantum teleportation, quantum cryptography or…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-02-15 Imre Varga , Jose Antonio Mendez-Bermudez

Orbital angular momentum entanglement is one of the most intriguing topics in quantum physics. A broad range of research have been dedicated either to unravel its underlying physics or to expand the entanglement dimensions and degrees. In…

Optics · Physics 2018-08-29 Wei Li , Shengmei Zhao

Quantum entanglement occurs not just in discrete systems such as spins, but also in the spatial wave functions of systems with more than one degree of freedom. It is easy to introduce students to entangled wave functions at an early stage,…

Physics Education · Physics 2017-11-22 Daniel V. Schroeder

The question of whether entanglement between photons is equivalent to entanglement between their characteristic field modes, specifically, the single-particle wavefunctions that are composed and superposed to describe particles in such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Aniruddha Bhattacharya

I. Introduction (Preface, Exciton entanglers, Photon entanglers) II. Entanglement basics (Quantum versus classical correlations, Bell inequality, Entanglement measures for pure states, Entanglement measures for mixed states, Particle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-13 C. W. J. Beenakker

The degree of entanglement of an electron with a hole in a vertically coupled self-assembled dot molecule is shown to be tunable by an external electric field. Using atomistic pseudopotential calculations followed by a configuration…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Gabriel Bester , Alex Zunger

We show how to detect and quantify entanglement of atoms in optical lattices in terms of correlations functions of the momentum distribution. These distributions can be measured directly in the experiments. We introduce two kinds of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. G. H. Vollbrecht , J. I. Cirac

We demonstrate entanglement between the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of two photoelectrons ionized via the strongly correlated process of non-sequential double ionization (NSDI). Due to the quantization of OAM, this entanglement is easily…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Andrew S. Maxwell , Lars Bojer Madsen , Maciej Lewenstein

A simple model coupling a one-dimensional beam particle to a one-dimensional harmonic oscillator is used to explore complementarity and entanglement. This model, well-known in the inelastic scattering literature, is presented under three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 David Kordahl

The phenomenon of molecular optical activity manifests itself as the rotation of the plane of linear polarization when light passes through chiral media. Measurements of optical activity and its wavelength dependence, optical rotatory…

Covariance matrices are a useful tool to investigate correlations and entanglement in quantum systems. They are widely used in continuous variable systems, but recently also for finite dimensional systems powerful entanglement criteria in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-22 Oleg Gittsovich , Otfried Gühne

Quantum information, a field in which great advances have been made in the past decades, now presents opportunities for chemistry. One roadblock to progress, especially for experimental chemical science, is that new concepts and technical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Weijun Wu , Gregory D. Scholes

We introduce a matter wave interference scheme based on the quantization of orbital angular momentum in a ring trap. It operates without beam splitters, is sensitive to geometric phases induced by external gauge fields, and allows measuring…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Filip Kiałka , Benjamin A. Stickler , Klaus Hornberger

Based on standard perturbation theory, we present a full quantum derivation of the formula for the orbital magnetization in periodic systems. The derivation is generally valid for insulators with or without a Chern number, for metals at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Junren Shi , G. Vignale , Di Xiao , Qian Niu

Short review on entanglement, as seen from a quantum information perspective, and some simple applications to many-body quantum systems. Special emphasis in area laws, cold atoms, and efficient descriptions using tensor network states.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-17 J. Ignacio Cirac

Thermalization play a central role in out-of-equilibrium physics of ultracold atoms or electronic transport phenomena. On the other hand, entanglement concepts have proven to be extremely useful to investigate quantum phases of matter.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Didier Poilblanc

We derive an explicit formula for an entanglement measure of mixed quantum states in a multi-level atom interacting with a cavity field within the framework of the quantum mutual entropy. We describe its theoretical basis and discuss its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mahmoud Abdel-Aty , M. R. B. Wahiddin , A. -S. F. Obada

Entanglement, which is an essential characteristic of quantum mechanics, is the key element in potential practical quantum information and quantum communication systems. However, there are many open and fundamental questions (relating to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 G. W. Ford , Yang Gao , R. F. O'Connell

Wave functions based on electron-pair states provide inexpensive and reliable models to describe quantum many-body problems containing strongly-correlated electrons, given that broken-pair states have been appropriately accounted for by,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Artur Nowak , Ors Legeza , Katharina Boguslawski