Entropy and entanglement in a bipartite quasi-Hermitian system and its Hermitian counterparts

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVA.108.012223MaRDI QIDQ6401065FDOQ6401065

Authors: Abed Alsalam Abu Moise, Graham Cox, M. Merkli 

Publication date: 3 June 2022

Abstract: We consider a quantum oscillator coupled to a bath of $N$ other oscillators. The total system evolves with a quasi-Hermitian Hamiltonian. Associated to it is a family of Hermitian systems, parameterized by a unitary map $W$. Our main goal is to find the influence of $W$ on the entropy and the entanglement in the Hermitian systems. We calculate explicitly the reduced density matrix of the single oscillator for all Hermitian systems and show that, regardless of $W$, their von Neumann entropy oscillates with a common period which is twice that of the non-Hermitian system. We show that generically, the oscillator and the bath are entangled for almost all times. While the amount of entanglement depends on the choice of $W$, it is independent of $W$ when averaged over a period. These results describe some universality in the physical properties of all Hermitian systems associated to a given non-Hermitian one.

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