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Title: Ensemble-averaged entanglement of two-particle states in Fock space

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
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  1. Departement Fysica, Universiteit Antwerpen, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerpen (Belgium)

Recent results, extending the Schmidt decomposition theorem to wave functions of pairs of identical particles, are reviewed. They are used to give a definition of reduced density operators in the case of two identical particles. Next, a method is discussed to calculate time averaged entanglement. It is applied to a pair of identical electrons in an otherwise empty band, and to a pair of bosons in a quadratic model with infinite range hopping. The effect of degeneracy of the spectrum of the Hamiltonian on the average entanglement is emphasized.

OSTI ID:
20991068
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 75, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.75.062104; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English