Entanglement entropy between virtual and real excitations in quantum electrodynamics

DOI10.1142/S0217751X18500811zbMATH Open1388.81024arXiv1802.06774MaRDI QIDQ4642397FDOQ4642397

Authors: Juan Sebastian Ardenghi 

Publication date: 23 May 2018

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The aim of this work is to introduce the entanglement entropy of real and virtual excitations of fermion and photon fields. By rewriting the generating functional of quantum electrodynamics theory as an inner product between quantum operators, it is possible to obtain quantum density operators representing the propagation of real and virtual particles. These operators are partial traces, where the degrees of freedom traced out are unobserved excitations. Then the Von Neumann definition of entropy can be applied to these quantum operators and in particular, for the partial traces taken over the internal or external degrees of freedom. A universal behavior is obtained for the entanglement entropy for different quantum fields at zero order in the coupling constant. In order to obtain numerical results at different orders in the perturbation expansion, the Bloch-Nordsieck model is considered, where it it shown that for some particular values of the electric charge, the von Neumann entropy increases or decreases with respect to the non-interacting case.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.06774

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zbMATH Keywords

entropyentanglementQEDpartial tracesvirtual particles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum optics (81V80) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

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