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We study the von Neumann entropy of the partial trace of a system of two two-level atoms (qubits) in a dispersive cavity where the atoms are interacting collectively with a single mode electromagnetic field in the cavity. We make a contrast…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-01 Ram Narayan Deb

We review some classic works on ground state entanglement entropy in $(1+1)$-dimensional free scalar field theory. We point out identifications between the methods for the calculation of entanglement entropy and we show how the formalism…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Dimitrios Katsinis , Georgios Pastras

The field space entanglement entropy of a quantum field theory is obtained by integrating out a subset of its fields. We study an interacting quantum field theory consisting of massless scalar fields on a closed compact manifold M. To this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-06 Helmuth Huffel , Gerald Kelnhofer

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 entanglement entropy for a quantum critical system across a boundary with a corner exhibits a sub-leading logarithmic scaling term with a scale-invariant coefficient. Using a Numerical Linked Cluster Expansion, we calculate this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-06-30 Ann B. Kallin , E. M. Stoudenmire , Paul Fendley , Rajiv R. P. Singh , Roger G. Melko

The aim of this work is to introduce the entanglement entropy of real and virtual excitations of fermion and photon fields. By rewriting the generating functional of quantum electrodynamics theory as an inner product between quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 Juan Sebastian Ardenghi

We show that the entropy of entanglement is sensitive to the coherent quantum phase transition between normal and super-radiant regions of a system of a finite number of three-level atoms interacting in a dipolar approximation with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-20 Luis Fernando Quezada , Eduardo Nahmad-Achar

We introduce a series of quantities which characterizes a given local operator in conformal field theories from the viewpoint of quantum entanglement. It is defined by the increased amount of (Renyi) entanglement entropy at late time for an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-26 Masahiro Nozaki , Tokiro Numasawa , Tadashi Takayanagi

The mathematical structure of quantum entanglement is studied and classified from the point of view of quantum compound states. We show that t he classical-quantum correspondences such as encodings can be treated as dia gonal (d-)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Viacheslav P Belavkin , Masanori Ohya

Conformal field theories in curved backgrounds have been used to describe inhomogeneous one-dimensional systems, such as quantum gases in trapping potentials and non-equilibrium spin chains. This approach provided, in a elegant and simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-26 Sara Murciano , Paola Ruggiero , Pasquale Calabrese

We present a perturbative method to compute the ground state entanglement entropy for interacting systems. We apply it to a collective model of mutually interacting spins in a magnetic field. At the quantum critical point, the entanglement…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-11 T. Barthel , S. Dusuel , J. Vidal

Integrating out high energy degrees of freedom to yield a low energy effective field theory leads to a loss of information with a concomitant increase in entropy. We obtain the effective field theory of a light scalar field interacting with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-03-21 Daniel Boyanovsky

In this paper we seek to understand what current knowledge of entanglement entropies suggests about the appropriate way to interpret the covariant entropy bound. We first begin by arguing that just as in the classical case, a universal…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-07-31 Emily Adlam

We establish that the leading critical scaling of the single-copy entanglement is exactly one half of the entropy of entanglement of a block in critical infinite spin chains in a general setting, using methods of conformal field theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Orus , J. I. Latorre , J. Eisert , M. Cramer

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

Inhomogeneous quantum critical systems in one spatial dimension have been studied by using conformal field theory in static curved backgrounds. Two interesting examples are the free fermion gas in the harmonic trap and the inhomogeneous XX…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-18 Erik Tonni , Javier Rodríguez-Laguna , Germán Sierra

Linear response theory (LRT) is a key tool in investigating the quantum matter, for quantum systems perturbed by a weak probe, it connects the dynamics of experimental observable with the correlation function of unprobed equilibrium states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-27 Yuan-Sheng Wang , Teng Ma , Man-Hong Yung

We study the scaling of the Renyi entanglement entropy of two disjoint blocks of critical lattice models described by conformal field theories with central charge c=1. We provide the analytic conformal field theory result for the second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-19 Vincenzo Alba , Luca Tagliacozzo , Pasquale Calabrese

The operational structure of quantum couplings and entanglements is studied and classified for semifinite von Neumann algebras. We show that the classical-quantum correspondences such as quantum encodings can be treated as diagonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. P. Belavkin , M. Ohya

The scaling behavior of the entanglement entropy in the two-dimensional random transverse field Ising model is studied numerically through the strong disordered renormalization group method. We find that the leading term of the entanglement…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-13 Rong Yu , Hubert Saleur , Stephan Haas