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arXiv:1103.3836 · Europhysics Letters (EPL)

Nonergodic classical correlations lead to ergodic quantum correlations in low-dimensional spin models

R. Prabhu, Aditi Sen(De), Ujjwal Sen

Published Apr 29, 2013• 5 citations
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Abstract

Quantum correlations are traditionally viewed as constituted out of classical correlations and single-party parameters. While this, of course, remains so, we show that entanglement can have statistical mechanical properties like ergodicity, which are not inherited from the corresponding classical correlations and single-party parameters, in diagonalizable as well as nondiagonalizable low-dimensional quantum spin systems. In particular, we find that the results hold for the quantum XY spin models on the chain, ladder and in two dimensions.

DOI
10.1209/0295-5075/102/30001

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