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Entanglement Between Noncomplementary Parts of Many-Body Systems

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Hannu Christian Wichterich

    1. , Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, United Kingdom

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  • Nominated as an outstanding contribution by University College London
  • Treats two of the major challenges of modern physics: Entanglement and emergent properties (phase transitions)
  • Provides an excellent theoretical basis for future research

Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Hannu Christian Wichterich
    Pages 1-14

  3. Exploiting Quench Dynamics in Spin Chains for Distant Entanglement and Quantum Communication

    • Hannu Christian Wichterich
    Pages 15-30

  4. Extraction of Pure Entangled States From Many-Body Systems by Distant Local Projections

    • Hannu Christian Wichterich
    Pages 31-42

  5. Scaling of Negativity Between Separated Blocks in Spin Chains at Criticality

    • Hannu Christian Wichterich
    Pages 43-59

  6. Universality of the Negativity in the Lipkin–Meshkov–Glick Model

    • Hannu Christian Wichterich
    Pages 61-79

  7. Conclusions and Outlook

    • Hannu Christian Wichterich
    Pages 81-82

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 83-113
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This thesis investigates the structure and behaviour of entanglement, the purely quantum mechanical part of correlations, in many-body systems, employing both numerical and analytical techniques at the interface of condensed matter theory and quantum information theory. Entanglement can be seen as a precious resource which, for example, enables the noiseless and instant transmission of quantum information, provided the communicating parties share a sufficient "amount" of it. Furthermore, measures of entanglement of a quantum mechanical state are perceived as useful probes of collective properties of many-body systems. For instance, certain measures are capable of detecting and classifying ground-state phases and, particularly, transition (or critical) points separating such phases. Chapters 2 and 3 focus on entanglement in many-body systems and its use as a potential resource for communication protocols. They address the questions of how a substantial amount of entanglement can be established between distant subsystems, and how efficiently this entanglement could be "harvested" by way of measurements. The subsequent chapters 4 and 5 are devoted to universality of entanglement between large collections of particles undergoing a quantum phase transition, where, despite the enormous complexity of these systems, collective properties including entanglement no longer depend crucially on the microscopic details.

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“The theses brings new and very interesting knowledge on the quantum information field. … this thesis gives a new insight of entanglement between noncomplementary regious of many-body systems, with interesting discussions and well carried out mathematical models.” (Nicolae Constantinescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1222, 2011)

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  • , Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, London, United Kingdom

    Hannu Christian Wichterich

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