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Identical particles and entanglement are both fundamental components of quantum mechanics. However, when identical particles are condensed in a single spatial mode, the standard notions of entanglement, based on clearly identifiable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 N. Killoran , M. Cramer , M. B. Plenio

We analyze the effect of varying system conditions on the single-particle entanglement entropy for an arbitrary eigenstate of a complex system that can be described by a multiparametric Gaussian ensemble. Our theoretical analysis leads to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Devanshu Shekhar , Pragya Shukla

Similarly to the system Hamiltonian, a subsystem's reduced density matrix is composed of blocks characterized by symmetry quantum numbers (charge sectors). We present a geometric approach for extracting the contribution of individual charge…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-17 Moshe Goldstein , Eran Sela

A measure of how sensitive the entanglement entropy is in a quantum system, has been proposed and its information geometric origin is discussed. It has been demonstrated for two exactly solvable spin systems, that thermodynamic criticality…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-02 Pritam Sarkar

Entanglement is a vital property of multipartite quantum systems, characterised by the inseparability of quantum states of objects regardless of their spatial separation. Generation of entanglement between increasingly macroscopic and…

Using free-fermionic techniques we study the entanglement entropy of a block of contiguous spins in a large finite quantum Ising chain in a transverse field, with couplings of different types: homogeneous, periodically modulated and random.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ferenc Igloi , Yu-Cheng Lin

The entanglement and quantum correlation measures have been investigated for the ground state of a spin chain with a Kitaev-type exchange interactions on alternating bonds, along with a transverse magnetic field. There is a macroscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Vimalesh Kumar Vimal , V. Subrahmanyam

Using the geometric entanglement measure, we study the scaling of multipartite entanglement in several 1D models at criticality, specifically the linear harmonic chain and the XY spin chain encompassing both the Ising and XX critical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-01 Alonso Botero , Benni Reznik

Entanglement can hide in two fundamentally different ways. First, multi-copy correlations can carry information that no single-copy measurement on an unknown state is able to access. Second, bound entangled states possess a positive partial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Patrycja Tulewicz , Karol Bartkiewicz , Franco Nori

The transition between many-body localized states and the delocalized thermal states is an eigen-state phase transition at finite energy density outside the scope of conventional quantum statistical mechanics. In this work we investigate…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-08-13 Wei Zhang , Ziqiang Wang

The entanglement in a quantum system that possess an internal symmetry, characterized by the Sz-magnetization or U(1)-charge, is distributed among different sectors. The aim of this letter is to gain a deeper understanding of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-25 J. C. Xavier , F. C. Alcaraz , G. Sierra

We analyze the problem of quantifying entanglement in pure and mixed states of fermionic systems with fixed number parity yet not necessarily fixed particle number. The "mode entanglement" between one single-particle level and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-02 N. Gigena , R. Rossignoli

In this paper, we study the entanglement properties of a spin-1 model the exact ground state of which is given by a Matrix Product state. The model exhibits a critical point transition at a parameter value a=0. The longitudinal and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-25 Amit Tribedi , Indrani Bose

Entanglement of the ground states in $XXZ$ and dimerized Heisenberg spin chains as well as in a two-leg spin ladder is analyzed by using the spin-spin concurrence and the entanglement entropy between a selected sublattice of spins and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Yan Chen , Paolo Zanardi , Z. D. Wang , F. C. Zhang

We investigate the entanglement between two separated segments in the vacuum state of a free 1D Klein-Gordon field, where explicit computations are performed in the continuum limit of the linear harmonic chain. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Marcovitch , A. Retzker , M. B. Plenio , B. Reznik

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 entanglement entropy of a subsystem $A$ of a quantum system is expressed, in the replica method, through analytic continuation with respect to n of the trace of the n-th power of the reduced density matrix $\tr\rho_A^n$. We study the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-25 F. Gliozzi , L. Tagliacozzo

We propose a nonlocal entanglement concentration protocol (ECP) for $N$-photon systems in a partially entangled W state, resorting to some ancillary single photons and the parity-check measurement based on cross-Kerr nonlinearity. One party…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Fang-Fang Du , Tao Li , Bao-Cang Ren , Hai-Rui Wei , Fu-Guo Deng

Entanglement is a fundamental feature of quantum mechanics and holds great promise for enhancing metrology and communications. Much of the focus of quantum metrology so far has been on generating highly entangled quantum states that offer…

We discuss the Renyi entanglement entropies of descendant states in critical one-dimensional systems with boundaries, that map to boundary conformal field theories in the scaling limit. We unify the previous conformal-field-theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-27 Luca Taddia , Fabio Ortolani , Tamás Pálmai