Correlation energy and entanglement gap in continuous models

DOI10.1142/S0219749911007666zbMATH Open1223.81069arXiv1004.2828OpenAlexW2164831694MaRDI QIDQ3087474FDOQ3087474

Authors: Giovanna Ruggeri, Luigi Martina, G. Soliani 

Publication date: 16 August 2011

Published in: International Journal of Quantum Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Our goal is to clarify the relation between entanglement and correlation energy in a bipartite system with infinite dimensional Hilbert space. To this aim we consider the completely solvable Moshinsky's model of two linearly coupled harmonic oscillators. Also for small values of the couplings the entanglement of the ground state is nonlinearly related to the correlation energy, involving logarithmic or algebraic corrections. Then, looking for witness observables of the entanglement, we show how to give a physical interpretation of the correlation energy. In particular, we have proven that there exists a set of separable states, continuously connected with the Hartree-Fock state, which may have a larger overlap with the exact ground state, but also a larger energy expectation value. In this sense, the correlation energy provides an entanglement gap, i.e. an energy scale, under which measurements performed on the 1-particle harmonic sub-system can discriminate the ground state from any other separated state of the system. However, in order to verify the generality of the procedure, we have compared the energy distribution cumulants for the 1-particle harmonic sub-system of the Moshinsky's model with the case of a coupling with a damping Ohmic bath at 0 temperature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.2828

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zbMATH Keywords

harmonic oscillatorHartree-Fock stateMoshinsky's model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Groups and algebras in quantum theory and relations with integrable systems (81R12)

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