Entropy-driven phase transitions of entanglement

Paolo Facchi, Giuseppe Florio, Giorgio Parisi, Saverio Pascazio, and Kazuya Yuasa
Phys. Rev. A 87, 052324 – Published 28 May 2013

Abstract

We study the behavior of bipartite entanglement at fixed von Neumann entropy. We look at the distribution of the entanglement spectrum, that is, the eigenvalues of the reduced density matrix of a quantum system in a pure state. We report the presence of two continuous phase transitions, characterized by different entanglement spectra, which are deformations of classical eigenvalue distributions.

  • Received 15 February 2013

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.87.052324

©2013 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Paolo Facchi1,2, Giuseppe Florio1,2,3, Giorgio Parisi4,5,6, Saverio Pascazio1,2, and Kazuya Yuasa7

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica and MECENAS, Università di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
  • 2INFN, Sezione di Bari, I-70126 Bari, Italy
  • 3Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche “Enrico Fermi,” I-00184 Roma, Italy
  • 4Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “Sapienza,” I-00185 Roma, Italy
  • 5Centre for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity (SMC), CNR-INFM, I-00185 Roma, Italy
  • 6INFN, Sezione di Roma, I-00185 Roma, Italy
  • 7Department of Physics, Waseda University, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan

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Vol. 87, Iss. 5 — May 2013

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