Entanglement entropy of round spheres

We propose that the logarithmic term in the entanglement entropy computed in a conformal field theory for a (d−2)$(d-2)$-dimensional round sphere in Minkowski spacetime is identical to the logarithmic term in the entanglement entropy of extreme black hole. The near horizon geometry of the latter is H₂×S_d−2$H_2\times S_{d-2}$. For a scalar field this proposal is checked by direct calculation. We comment on relation of this and earlier calculations to the “brick wall” model of 't Hooft. The case of generic 4d conformal field theory is discussed.     

Entanglement entropy converges to classical entropy around periodic orbits

We consider oscillators evolving subject to a periodic driving force that dynamically entangles them, and argue that this gives the linearized evolution around periodic orbits in a general chaotic Hamiltonian dynamical system. We show that the entanglement entropy, after tracing over half of the oscillators, generically asymptotes to linear growth at a rate given by the sum of the positive Lyapunov exponents of the system. These exponents give a classical entropy growth rate, in the sense of Kolmogorov, Sinai and Pesin. We also calculate the dependence of this entropy on linear mixtures of the oscillator Hilbert-space factors, to investigate the dependence of the entanglement entropy on the choice of coarse graining. We find that for almost all choices the asymptotic growth rate is the same.     

用CS2分子研究振动局域态的纠缠和能量

研究CS₂费米共振耦合振动局域态的Neumann纠缠熵动力学, 并研究伸缩与弯曲振动的相互作用能量, 目的是建立纠缠与能量的联系. 结果表明伸缩振动局域态的纠缠与能量是反关联更明显, 而弯曲振动局域态的纠缠与能量是正关联更明显. 还讨论了非局域态的纠缠与能量的关系.     

Entanglement Dynamics and Chaos in the Dicke Model

We study dynamical properties of quantum entanglement in the Dicke model with and without the rotating-wave approximation. Specifically, we investigate the maximal entanglement and mean entanglement which reflect the underlying chaos in the system, and a good classical-quantum correspondence is found. We also show that the maximal linear entropy can be more sensitive to chaos than the mean linear entropy.     

Entanglement in holographic dark energy models

We study a process of equilibration of holographic dark energy (HDE) with the cosmic horizon around the dark-energy dominated epoch. This process is characterized by a huge amount of information conveyed across the horizon, filling thereby a large gap in entropy between the system on the brink of experiencing a sudden collapse to a black hole and the black hole itself. At the same time, even in the absence of interaction between dark matter and dark energy, such a process marks a strong jump in the entanglement entropy, measuring the quantum-mechanical correlations between the horizon and its interior. Although the effective quantum field theory (QFT) with a peculiar relationship between the UV and IR cutoffs, a framework underlying all HDE models, may formally account for such a huge shift in the number of distinct quantum states, we show that the scope of such a framework becomes tremendously restricted, devoid virtually any application in other cosmological epochs or particle-physics phenomena. The problem of negative entropies for the non-phantom stuff is also discussed.     

Entanglement of a General Formalism V-Type Three-Level Atom Interacting with a Single-Mode Field in the Presence of Nonlinearities

We investigate the evolution of the atomic quantum entropy and the atom-field entanglement in a system of a V-configuration three-level atom interacting with a single-mode field with additional forms of nonlinearities of both the field and the intensity-dependent atom-field coupling. With the derivation of the unitary operator within the frame of the dressed state and the exact results for the state of the system we perform a careful investigation of the temporal evolution of the entropy. A factorization of the initial density operator is assumed, considering the field to be initially in a squeezed coherent or binomial state. The effects of the mean photon number, detuning, Kerr-like medium and the intensity-dependent coupling functional on the entropy are analyzed.     

Entanglement entropy, decoherence, and quantum phase transitions of a dissipative two-level system

The concept of entanglement entropy appears in multiple contexts, from black hole physics to quantum information theory, where it measures the entanglement of quantum states. We investigate the entanglement entropy in a simple model, the spin-boson model, which describes a qubit (two-level system) interacting with a collection of harmonic oscillators that models the environment responsible for decoherence and dissipation. The entanglement entropy allows to make a precise unification between entanglement of the spin with its environment, decoherence, and quantum phase transitions. We derive exact analytical results which are confirmed by Numerical Renormalization Group arguments both for an ohmic and a subohmic bosonic bath. The entanglement entropy obeys universal scalings. We make comparisons with entanglement properties in the quantum Ising model and in the Dicke model. We also emphasize the possibility of measuring this entropy using charge qubits subject to electromagnetic noise; such measurements would provide an empirical proof of the existence of entanglement entropy.     

Effect of the time-dependent coupling on a superconducting qubit-field system under decoherence: Entanglement and Wehrl entropy

The dynamics of a superconducting (SC) qubit interacting with a field under decoherence with and without time-dependent coupling effect is analyzed. Quantum features like the collapse–revivals for the dynamics of population inversion, sudden birth and sudden death of entanglement, and statistical properties are investigated under the phase damping effect. Analytic results for certain parametric conditions are obtained. We analyze the influence of decoherence on the negativity and Wehrl entropy for different values of the physical parameters. We also explore an interesting relation between the SC-field entanglement and Wehrl entropy behavior during the time evolution. We show that the amount of SC-field entanglement can be enhanced as the field tends to be more classical. The studied model of SC-field system with the time-dependent coupling has high practical importance due to their experimental accessibility which may open new perspectives in different tasks of quantum formation processing.     

Torsion and entropy driven denaturation of DNA

A unified theory of the denaturation transition having torsion energy as the control parameter has been formulated here in the framework of the mapping of a DNA molecule onto a Heisenberg spin system. The torsion energy incorporates the torque, tension and temperature, the latter being associated with the twist angle. The denaturation transition can be mapped onto the quantum phase transition induced by a quench when the temperature effect is incorporated in the quench time and torsion takes the role of the external field. The denaturation transition occurs when the entanglement entropy of the spin system vanishes.     

Entanglement entropy and variational methods: Interacting scalar fields

We develop a variational approximation to the entanglement entropy for scalar ?⁴${?}^4$ theory in 1+1$1+1$, 2+1$2+1$, and 3+1$3+1$ dimensions, and then examine the entanglement entropy as a function of the coupling. We find that in 1+1$1+1$ and 2+1$2+1$ dimensions, the entanglement entropy of ?⁴${?}^4$ theory as a function of coupling is monotonically decreasing and convex. While ?⁴${?}^4$ theory with positive bare coupling in 3+1$3+1$ dimensions is thought to lead to a trivial free theory, we analyze a version of ?⁴${?}^4$ with infinitesimal negative bare coupling, an asymptotically free theory known as precarious  ?⁴${?}^4$ theory, and explore the monotonicity and convexity of its entanglement entropy as a function of coupling. Within the variational approximation, the stability of precarious ?⁴${?}^4$ theory is related to the sign of the first and second derivatives of the entanglement entropy with respect to the coupling.     

Non-extensive statistical entropy,quantum groups and quantum entanglement

In this work, we explore a new connection between quantum groups and Tsallis entropy through the energy spectrum of a Hamiltonian with S_Uq(2)$S{U}_q\left(2\right)$ symmetry. Identifying the deformation parameter of the entropy with the parameter of deformation of the associated quantum group, we deduce Tsallis entropy for states related to such a system with S_Uq(2)$S{U}_q\left(2\right)$ symmetry and conducted an investigation of quantum entanglement.     

Entanglement in fermionic chains with interface defects

We study the ground‐state entanglement of two halves of a critical transverse Ising chain, separated by an interface defect. From the relation to a two‐dimensional Ising model with a defect line we obtain an exact expression for the continuously varying effective central charge which governs the asymptotic behaviour of the entanglement entropy. The result is relevant also for other fermionic chains.     

Gibbons-Maeda dilaton 黑洞的纠缠熵

按纠缠熵方法，计算了Gibbons-Maeda(G-M)dilaton黑洞视界外部与黑洞内量子态纠缠的一薄层内量子场的统计熵，得到了G-M dilaton黑洞的Bekenstein-Hawking熵.用广义不确定原理对量子态密度进行修正，克服了brick-wall模型中视界附近态密度的发散困难，该薄层可以紧贴在事件视界上.对brick-wall外部量子场中与黑洞内自由度有关联的自由度统计熵进行了计算，并把结果与brick-wall内量子场的熵进行比较分析，显示两结果具有与视界面积成正比的一致性，但后者能更 关键词： 纠缠熵 黑洞 广义不确定原理 截断     

Entanglement and localization of a two-mode Bose-Einstein condensate

A simple second quantization model is used to describe a two-mode Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), which can be written in terms of the generators of a SU(2) algebra with three parameters. We study the behavior of the entanglement entropy and localization of the system in the parameter space of the model. The phase transitions in the parameter space are determined by means of the coherent state formalism and the catastrophe theory, which besides let us get the best variational state that reproduces the ground state energy. This semiclassical method let us organize the energy spectrum in regions where there are crossings and anticrossings. The ground state of the two-mode BEC, depending on the values of the interaction strengths, is dominated by a single Dicke state, a spin collective coherent state, or a superposition of two spin collective coherent states. The entanglement entropy is determined for two recently proposed partitions of the two-mode BEC that are called separation by boxes and separation by modes of the atoms. The entanglement entropy in the boxes partition is strongly correlated to the properties of localization in phase space of the model, which is given by the evaluation of the second moment of the Husimi function. To compare the fitness of the trial wavefunction its overlap with the exact quantum solution is evaluated. The entanglement entropy for both partitions, the overlap and localization properties of the system get singular values along the separatrix of the two-mode BEC, which indicates the phase transitions which remain in the thermodynamical limit, in the parameter space.     

Control of the entanglement between triple quantum dot molecule and its spontaneous emission fields via quantum entropy

The time evolution of the quantum entropy in a coherently driven triple quantum dot molecule is investigated. The entanglement of the quantum dot molecule and its spontaneous emission field is coherently controlled by the gate voltage and the rate of an incoherent pump field. The degree of entanglement between a triple quantum dot molecule and its spontaneous emission fields is decreased by increasing the tunneling parameter.     

Entanglement entropy of an annulus in holographic thermalization

The thermalization process of the holographic entanglement entropy(HEE)of an annular domain is investigated in the Vaidya-AdS geometry.We determine numerically the Hubeny-Rangamani-Takayanagi(HRT)surface,which may be a hemi-torus or two disks,depending on the ratio of the inner radius to the outer radius of the annulus.More importantly,for some fixed ratio of the two radii,the annulus undergoes a phase transition,or a double phase transition,during thermalization from a hemi-torus to a two-disk configuration,or vice versa.The occurrence of various phase transitions is determined by the ratio of the two radii of the annulus.The rate of entanglement growth is also investigated during the thermal quench.The local maximal rate of entanglement growth occurs in the region with a double phase transition.Finally,if the quench process is sufficiently slow,which may be controlled by the thickness of the null shell,the region with a double phase transition vanishes.     

Entanglement dynamics of two-bipartite system under the influence of dissipative environments

An experimental scheme is suggested that permits a direct measure of entanglement in a two-qubit cavity system. It is realized in the cavity-QED technology utilizing atoms as flying qubits. With this scheme we generate two different measures of entanglement, namely logarithmic negativity and concurrence. The phenomenon of sudden death entanglement (ESD) in a bipartite system subjected to dissipative environment is examined. We show that the sudden death time of the entangled states depends on the initial preparation of the entangled state and the temperature of the reservoir.     

三个两能级原子与数态场相互作用的纠缠特性

通过计算并发度和线性熵研究了初始处于GHZ态的三个两能级原子与数态场相互作用系统的纠缠动力学特性,讨论了场的初始光子数对并发度和线性熵的影响.结果表明,腔内两原子之间的纠缠出现突然产生现象,而且可以通过改变场的初始光子数来控制产生纠缠的阈值时间和纠缠的最大值.对腔外原子的探测导致了并发度随时间的演化呈现周期性规律,场的光子数的增加不但减小了并发度的最大值,而且缩短了并发度的演化周期.     

三个两能级原子与数态场相互作用的纠缠特性

通过计算并发度和线性熵研究了初始处于GHZ态的三个两能级原子与数态场相互作用系统的纠缠动力学特性,讨论了场的初始光子数对并发度和线性熵的影响.结果表明,腔内两原子之间的纠缠出现突然产生现象,而且可以通过改变场的初始光子数来控制产生纠缠的阈值时间和纠缠的最大值.对腔外原子的探测导致了并发度随时间的演化呈现周期性规律,场的光子数的增加不但减小了并发度的最大值,而且缩短了并发度的演化周期.