Published December 2005
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Journal article
Magnetic susceptibility as a macroscopic entanglement witness
- 1. Erwin Schroedinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Boltzmanngasse 9, A-1090 Vienna (Austria)
- 2. Instytut Fizyki Teoretycznej i Astrofizyki Uniwersytet Gdanski, PL-80-952 Gdansk (Poland)
- 3. Institut fuer Experimentalphysik, Universitaet Wien, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Vienna (Austria)
- 4. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT (United Kingdom)
- 5. Institut fuer Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Oesterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Boltzmanngasse 3, A-1090 Vienna (Austria)
Description
We show that magnetic susceptibility can reveal spin entanglement between individual constituents of a solid, while magnetization describes their local properties. We then show that magnetization and its variance (equivalent to magnetic susceptibility for a wide class of systems) satisfy complementary relation in the quantum-mechanical sense. It describes sharing of (quantum) information in the solid between spin entanglement and local properties of its individual constituents. Magnetic susceptibility is shown to be a macroscopic (thermodynamical) spin entanglement witness that can be applied without complete knowledge of the specific model (Hamiltonian) of the solid
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/1367-2630/7/258/njp5_1_258.pdf or at the Web site for the journal New Journal of Physics (ISSN 1367-2630) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/1367-2630/7/258/njp5_1_258.pdf;
- DOI
- 10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/258;
- PII
- S1367-2630(05)08440-5;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- New Journal of Physics
- Journal Volume
- 7
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 258
- ISSN
- 1367-2630
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 37053521
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- HAMILTONIANS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MAGNETIZATION; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPIN
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; INFORMATION; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MECHANICS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; QUANTUM OPERATORS