Entanglement in Phase Space

DOI10.1007/978-3-540-88169-8_4zbMATH Open1163.81004arXivquant-ph/0612029OpenAlexW2147659681MaRDI QIDQ3613293FDOQ3613293

Authors: A. M. Ozorio De Almeida 

Publication date: 12 March 2009

Published in: Entanglement and Decoherence (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Classical surfaces in phase space correspond to quantum states in Hilbert space. Subsystems specify factor spaces of the Hilbert space. An entangled state corresponds semiclassically to a surface that cannot be decomposed into a product of lower dimensional surfaces. Such a classical factorization never exists for ergodic eigenstates of a chaotic Hamiltonian. The space of quantum operators corresponds to a double phase space. The various representations of the density operator then result from alternative choices of allowed coordinate planes. In the case of the Wigner function and its Fourier transform, the chord function, or the quantum characteristic function, this is a phase space on its own. The reduced Wigner function, representing the partial trace of a density operator over a subsystem is the projection of the original Wigner function; the reduced chord function is obtained as a section. The purity of the reduced density operator, the square of its trace, is a measure of entanglement, obtained by integrating either the square of the reduced Wigner function, or the square-modulus of the reduced chord function. Bell inequalities for general parity measurements can be violated even for classical looking states with positive Wigner functions that have evolved classically from product states. These include the original EPR state. Entanglement with an unknown environment results in decoherence. An example is that of the centre of mass of a large number of independent particles, entangled with internal variables. In this case, the Central Limit Theorem for Wigner functions leads to some aspects of Markovian evolution for the reduced system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0612029

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68)

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