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arXiv:1408.4672 · New Journal of Physics

Detecting two-site spin-entanglement in many-body systems with local particle-number fluctuations

Leonardo Mazza, Davide Rossini, Rosario Fazio, Manuel Endres

Published Jan 9, 2015• 22 citations
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Abstract

We derive experimentally measurable lower bounds for the two-site entanglement of the spin-degrees of freedom of many-body systems with local particle-number fluctuations. Our method aims at enabling the spatially resolved detection of spin-entanglement in Hubbard systems using high-resolution imaging in optical lattices. A possible application is the observation of entanglement generation and spreading during spin impurity dynamics, for which we provide numerical simulations. More generally, the scheme can simplify the entanglement detection in ion chains, Rydberg atoms, or similar atomic systems.

DOI
10.1088/1367-2630/17/1/013015

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Entanglement is an essential property of quantum many-body systems.However, its local detection is challenging and was so far limited to spin degrees of freedom in ion chains.Here we measure entanglement between the spins of atoms located on two lattice sites in a one-dimensional Bose-Hubbard chain which features both local spin-and particle-number fluctuations.Starting with an initially localized spin impurity, we observe an outwards propagating entanglement wave and show quantitatively how entanglement in the spin sector rapidly decreases with increasing particle-number fluctuations in the chain.
Correlation functions play an important role for the theoretical and experimental characterization of many-body systems. In solid-state systems, they are usually determined through scattering experiments, whereas in cold gases systems, time-of-flight, and in situ absorption imaging are the standard observation techniques. However, none of these methods allow the in situ detection of spatially resolved correlation functions at the single-particle level. Here, we give a more detailed account of recent advances in the detection of correlation functions using in situ fluorescence imaging of ultracold bosonic atoms in an optical lattice. This method yields single-site- and single-atom-resolved images of the lattice gas in a single experimental run, thus gaining direct access to fluctuations in the many-body system. As a consequence, the detection of correlation functions between an arbitrary set of lattice sites is possible. This enables not only the detection of two-site correlation functions but also the evaluation of non-local correlations, which originate from an extended region of the system and are used for the characterization of quantum phases that do not possess (quasi-)long-range order in the traditional sense.
This thesis is devoted to the theoretical characterization and generation of strongly correlated many-body states from the perspective of quantum information theory.We first study the entanglement properties of general many-body states and define a new measure for multipartite entanglement, the "Localizable Entanglement (LE)".It quantifies the maximal entanglement that can be localized, on average, between two parties by performing local measurements on the other parties.This measure provides knowledge of the "entanglement length", which is of particular importance in the context of quantum repeaters for long-distance quantum communication.We prove upper and lower bounds on LE in terms of two-body correlation functions and develop a method for the numerical computation of LE in one-dimensional spin systems.We analyze the localizable entanglement in various spin systems and observe characteristic features for a quantum phase transition such as a diverging entanglement length.In the second part of the thesis we focus on a specific many-body system: ultra-cold atoms in an optical lattice.This system is a promising candidate for the first physical realization of a "quantum simulator", but the temperature in current experiments is still too high.We propose, analyze and compare several schemes to cool the atoms close to the ground state of the strong interaction regime.In particular, we devise an algorithmic cooling protocol that combines occupation number filtering with spin-dependent lattice shifts.In addition, we propose two different physical realizations of filtering and also design protocols that generate an ensemble of quantum registers for quantum computation.In the third part we propose how to create entanglement in small atomic clouds by deforming and rotating the harmonic trapping potential.The resulting states are entangled in their motional degrees of freedom and can be identified with strongly correlated fractional quantum Hall states.For the case of two, three and four atoms we show how to adiabatically transform the unentangled ground state into the desired entangled state.We further discuss characteristic features of these states and propose how to create and detect them experimentally using an optical lattice setup. A Proof of the lower bound on LEA.1 Theorem on connected correlation functions and local measurements . . . . . . . . .
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