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Smallest eigenvalue distribution of the fixed trace Laguerre beta-ensemble

Mathematical Physics 2015-05-18 v2 math.MP

Abstract

In this paper we study entanglement of the reduced density matrix of a bipartite quantum system in a random pure state. It transpires that this involves the computation of the smallest eigenvalue distribution of the fixed trace Laguerre ensemble of N×NN\times N random matrices. We showed that for finite NN the smallest eigenvalue distribution may be expressed in terms of Jack polynomials. Furthermore, based on the exact results, we found, a limiting distribution, when the smallest eigenvalue is suitably scaled with NN followed by a large NN limit. Our results turn out to be the same as the smallest eigenvalue distribution of the classical Laguerre ensembles without the fixed trace constraint. This suggests in a broad sense, the global constraint does not influence local correlations, at least, in the large NN limit. Consequently, we have solved an open problem: The determination of the smallest eigenvalue distribution of the reduced density matrix---obtained by tracing out the environmental degrees of freedom---for a bipartite quantum system of unequal dimensions.

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@article{arxiv.1002.3975,
  title  = {Smallest eigenvalue distribution of the fixed trace Laguerre beta-ensemble},
  author = {Yang Chen and Dang-Zheng Liu and Da-Sheng Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.3975},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages;we have revised our paper, so as that state in clearer way what we intend to do and the results we found

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