Published July 2009 | Version v1
Journal article

Entanglement entropy and mutual information in Bose-Einstein condensates

  • 1. Department of Physics and NHMFL, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306 (United States)

Description

In this paper we study the entanglement properties of free nonrelativistic Bose gases. At zero temperature, we calculate the bipartite block entanglement entropy of the system and find that it diverges logarithmically with the particle number in the subsystem. For finite temperatures, we study the mutual information between the two blocks. We first analytically study an infinite-range hopping model, then numerically study a set of long-range hopping models in one dimension that exhibit Bose-Einstein condensation. In both cases we find that a Bose-Einstein condensate, if present, makes a divergent contribution to the mutual information which is proportional to the logarithm of the number of particles in the condensate in the subsystem. The prefactor of the logarithmic divergent term is model dependent.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
80
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 012329-012329.9
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41056539
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; BOSE-EINSTEIN GAS; ENTROPY; INFORMATION; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT
Descriptors DEC
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES

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