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Optimal bound on long-range distillable entanglement

Quantum Physics 2025-08-12 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We prove an upper bound on long-range distillable entanglement in DD spatial dimensions. Namely, it must decay faster than 1/r1/r, where rr is the distance between entangled regions. For states that are asymptotically rotationally invariant, the bound is strengthened to 1/rD1/r^D. We then find explicit examples of quantum states with decay arbitrarily close to the bound. In one dimension, we construct free fermion Hamiltonians with nearest neighbor couplings that have these states as ground states. Curiously, states in conformal field theory are far from saturation, with distillable entanglement decaying faster than any polynomial.

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@article{arxiv.2504.02926,
  title  = {Optimal bound on long-range distillable entanglement},
  author = {Jonah Kudler-Flam and Vladimir Narovlansky and Nikita Sopenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.02926},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures; v2: minor clarifications, references added, title changed to match published version

R2 v1 2026-06-28T22:45:50.905Z