The ground state entanglement of the system, both in discrete-time and continuous-time cases, is quantified through the linear entropy. The result shows that the entanglement increases as the interaction between the particles increases in both time scales. It is also found that the strength of the harmonic potential affects the formation rate of the entanglement of the system. The different feature of the entanglement between continuous-time and discrete-time scales is that, for discrete-time entanglement, there is a cut-off condition. This condition implies that the system can never be in a maximally entangled state.
The ground state entanglement of the system, both in discrete-time and continuous-time cases, is quantified through the linear entropy. The result shows that the entanglement increases as the interaction between the particles increases in both time scales. It is also found that the strength of the harmonic potential affects the formation rate of the entanglement of the system. The different feature of the entanglement between continuous-time and discrete-time scales is that, for discrete-time entanglement, there is a cut-off condition. This condition implies that the system can never be in a maximally entangled state.
We investigate the quantum entanglement dynamics of two coupled harmonic oscillators with a time-dependent interaction. Using the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant method, we derive the exact analytical wave functions without any perturbative or adiabatic approximations and combine this with a phase-space analysis using the Wigner function to provide a complete description of the system's quantum state evolution. We obtain general expression form for the purity and the linear entropy SL=1−P for arbitrary excitation numbers (n,m), allows a systematic study of entanglement for a large class of quantum states. We show that the entanglement dynamics is very sensitive to the interplay between the detuning parameters θ and ϑ2, the frequency parameter β0 and the coupling strength ε: the increase of detuning takes the system from slow irregular oscillations to fast and regular periodic behavior, and the stronger coupling systematically enhances both the amplitude and the average value of the linear entropy. Most importantly, for the resonance case ω1=ω2=1 and strong couplings ε≈0.99, the system shows robust undamped synchronized periodic oscillations of the linear entropy for all quantum states considered, indicating preserved quantum coherence without saturation. Our findings demonstrate that linear entropy is a sensitive and practical entanglement witness, and we establish explicit analytical relations between the coupling parameters of the system and its entanglement properties, which are directly relevant to quantum information processing and the control of quantum correlations in continuous-variable systems.
The entropy of a black hole scales with its area. This is a puzzling feature in the context of statistical mechanics, where entropy scales with volume. It is argued that entanglement entropy underlays such an area law. This quantity is hard to calculate because a precise understanding of the underlying quantum state is needed. Therefore it is interesting to study a Schwarzschild analogue in a photon condensate which is an exactly known quantum system in the ground-state mimicking the behaviour of an astronomic black hole. A harmonic chain of size N with a constant spring constant is studied as a toy model, of which the entanglement entropy is calculated by tracing out N−l oscillators. This separation of two regions can be interpret as separating the inner and outer regions of a black hole. The resulting entanglement entropy is considered for the discrete chain as well for Nrightarrowinfty, which represents the Klein-Gordon field on a flat background and with a UV cut-off. For large N, the entropy converge to the limit case. The performed numerical simulations hints at an area law with logarithmic corrections, given by S=frac0.27763lnbigg(fracNpisinfracpilNbigg)+0.6421 in the discrete case and S=frac0.37443lnl+0.6421 in the infinite case.
We apply the Walborn [Walborn S P, Taketani B G, Salles A, Toscano F and de Matos Filho R L 2009 Entropic Entanglement Criteria for Continuous Variables Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 160505] Shannon Entropic Entanglement Criterion (SEEC), to simple harmonic oscillators, a system typically discussed in undergraduate quantum mechanics courses. In particular, we investigate the entanglement of a system of coupled harmonic oscillators. A simple form of entanglement criterion in terms of their interaction is found. It is shown that a pair of interacting ground state coupled oscillators are more likely to be entangled for weaker coupling strengths while coupled oscillators in excited states entangle at higher coupling strengths. Interacting oscillators are more likely to be entangled as their interaction increases.
The time evolution of a quantum particle’s product of uncertainties in position and momentum is calculated when it is coupled with an external source. We have used a simple toy model where the particle is subject to a harmonic potential and coupled with an equivalent harmonic oscillator via a linear term. It is found that the long-time-averaged product is an increasing function of the coupling strength. It diverges when one of the eigenmodes of the coupled system goes soft, with the singular term twice of that for the stationary state. Generally, there is a jump of finite size for this quantity when a small coupling is turned on, compared to the uncoupled case. Similar behaviors have also been found for the von Neumann entanglement entropy, which is calculated exactly using a covariance matrix formalism. We find that the mode-interference plays an important role in the main features of this work.
It has been known for decades that black holes behave as thermodynamic objects and, as such, have an entropy, which was acquired in exact form as the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy. However, the origin of this entropy, and in particular its proportionality to the area of the horizon, remained unexplained. Motivated by this mystery, several authors examined the possibility of entanglement entropy as a source of black hole entropy, by considering a scalar ?eld in the ground state and\ntracing out the degrees of freedom inside an imaginary sphere, analogous to the interior of the black hole. The resulting entanglement entropy between the two regions turned out to scale with the area of their mutual boundary. In the simplest model the scalar ?eld is represented by a system of coupled harmonic oscillators. After an introduction to the phenomenon of quantum entanglement and the associated entanglement entropy, we will review the problem of two coupled oscillators in the ground state and derive the entanglement entropy using an approach in Fock space, as opposed to the standard method involving integrals in positon space. This will also\nallow us to look at some excited states of the system. Subsequently we will try to extend this approach to a system of N coupled harmonic oscillators and derive the entanglement entropy between an inner and outer region of oscillators.
The ground-state entanglement of a single particle of the N-harmonium system (i.e., a completely-integrable model of N particles where both the confinement and the two-particle interaction are harmonic) is shown to be analytically determined in terms of N and the relative interaction strength. For bosons, we compute the von Neumann entropy of the one-body reduced density matrix by using the corresponding natural occupation numbers. There exists a critical number Nc of particles so that below it, for positive values of the coupling constant, the entanglement grows when the number of particles is increasing; the opposite occurs for N>Nc. For fermions, we compute the one-body reduced density matrix for the closed-shell spinned case. In the strong coupling regime, the linear entropy of the system decreases when N is growing. For fixed N, the entanglement is found (a) to decrease (increase) for negatively (positively) increasing values of the coupling constant, and (b) to grow when the energy is increasing. Moreover, the spatial and spin contributions to the total entanglement are found to be of comparable size.