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arXiv:1105.4756 · Physical Review Letters

Entanglement Entropy of One-Dimensional Gases

Pasquale Calabrese, Mihail Mintchev, Ettore Vicari

Published Jul 6, 2011• 159 citations
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Abstract

We introduce a systematic framework to calculate the bipartite entanglement entropy of a spatial subsystem in a one-dimensional quantum gas which can be mapped into a noninteracting fermion system. To show the wide range of applicability of the proposed formalism, we use it for the calculation of the entanglement in the eigenstates of periodic systems, in a gas confined by boundaries or external potentials, in junctions of quantum wires, and in a time-dependent parabolic potential.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.107.020601

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