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A large class of strongly correlated quantum systems can be described in certain large-N limits by quadratic in field actions along with self-consistency equations that determine the two-point functions. We use the replica approach and the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-02-20 Siqi Shao , Yashar Komijani

We present a general framework for the generation of random unitaries based on random quenches in atomic Hubbard and spin models, forming approximate unitary $n$-designs, and their application to the measurement of R\'enyi entropies. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 B. Vermersch , A. Elben , M. Dalmonte , J. I. Cirac , P. Zoller

Entanglement measures such as the entanglement entropy have become an indispensable tool to identify the fundamental character of ground states of interacting quantum many-body systems. For systems of interacting spin or bosonic degrees of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-27 Peter Broecker , Simon Trebst

We present efficient and practical protocols to measure the second R\'enyi entropy (RE), whose exponential is known as the purity. We achieve this by establishing a direct connection to a Loschmidt echo (LE) type measurement sequence,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Yi-Neng Zhou , Robin Löwenberg , Julian Sonner

We present a general method for calculating R\'enyi entropies in the ground state of a one-dimensional critical system with mixed open boundaries, for an interval starting at one of its ends. In the conformal field theory framework, this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-12 Benoit Estienne , Yacine Ikhlef , Andrei Rotaru

The interplay of quantum and classical fluctuations in the vicinity of a quantum critical point (QCP) gives rise to various regimes or phases with distinct quantum character. In this work, we show that the R\'enyi entropy is a precious tool…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-29 Miha Srdinšek , Michele Casula , Rodolphe Vuilleumier

We show how to measure the order-two Renyi entropy of many-body states of spinful fermionic atoms in an optical lattice in equilibrium and non-equilibrium situations. The proposed scheme relies on the possibility to produce and couple two…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-10 Hannes Pichler , Lars Bonnes , Andrew J. Daley , Andreas M. Läuchli , Peter Zoller

The Jarzynski identity can be applied to instances when a microscopic system is pulled repeatedly but quickly along some coordinate, allowing the calculation of an equilibrium free energy profile along the pulling coordinate from a set of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Daun Jeong , Ioan Andricioaei

Entanglement criteria for an $n$-partite quantum system with continuous variables are formulated in terms of R\'{e}nyi entropies. R\'{e}nyi entropies are widely used as a good information measure due to many nice properties. Derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-22 Alexey E. Rastegin

We study the R\'enyi entropies in the spin-$1/2$ anisotropic Heisenberg chain after a quantum quench starting from the N\'eel state. The quench action method allows us to obtain the stationary R\'enyi entropies for arbitrary values of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-13 Vincenzo Alba , Pasquale Calabrese

We show that odd order R\'enyi entropies $S^{(2q+1)}$ of a system of interacting scalar fields can be calculated as the free energy of $2q+1$ replicas of the system with additional quadratic inter-replica couplings in the subsystem at the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-20 Mrinal Kanti Sarkar , Saranyo Moitra , Rajdeep Sensarma

The entropy of a quantum system is a measure of its randomness, and has applications in measuring quantum entanglement. We study the problem of measuring the von Neumann entropy, $S(\rho)$, and R\'enyi entropy, $S_\alpha(\rho)$ of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Jayadev Acharya , Ibrahim Issa , Nirmal V. Shende , Aaron B. Wagner

We study the statistical physics of the classical Ising model in the so-called $\alpha$-R\'enyi ensemble, a finite-temperature thermal state approximation that minimizes a modified free energy based on the $\alpha$-R\'enyi entropy. We begin…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-23 Andrew Jreissaty , Juan Carrasquilla

We propose and experimentally measure an entropy that quantifies the volume of correlations among qubits. The experiment is carried out on a nearly isolated quantum system composed of a central spin coupled and initially uncorrelated with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Mohamad Niknam , Lea F. Santos , David G. Cory

Entropy measures quantify the amount of information and correlation present in a quantum system. In practice, when the quantum state is unknown and only copies thereof are available, one must resort to the estimation of such entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Ziv Goldfeld , Dhrumil Patel , Sreejith Sreekumar , Mark M. Wilde

Entanglement is one of the most intriguing features of quantum mechanics. It describes non-local correlations between quantum objects, and is at the heart of quantum information sciences. Entanglement is rapidly gaining prominence in…

The scaling of entanglement with subsystem size encodes key information about phases and criticality, but the von Neumann entropy is costly to access in experiments and simulations, often requiring full state tomography. The second R\'enyi…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-09 Hatem Barghathi , Adrian Del Maestro

We combine the formalisms of diagonal entropy and Jarzynski Equality to study the thermodynamic properties of closed quantum systems. Applying this approach to a quantum harmonic oscillator, the diagonal entropy offers a notion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-09 Van A. Ngo , Stephan Haas

We develop a universal approximation for the Renyi entropies of a pure state at late times in a non-integrable many-body system, which macroscopically resembles an equilibrium density matrix. The resulting expressions are fully determined…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-24 Hong Liu , Shreya Vardhan

Operationally accessible entanglement in bipartite systems of indistinguishable particles could be reduced due to restrictions on the allowed local operations as a result of particle number conservation. In order to quantify this effect,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-10-17 Hatem Barghathi , C. M. Herdman , Adrian Del Maestro