Published December 2005 | Version v1
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/

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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