Describing mixed spin-space entanglement of pure states of indistinguishable particles using an occupation number basis

Details Describing mixed spin-space entanglement of pure states of indistinguishable particles using an occupation number basis Describing mixed spin-space entanglement of pure states of indistinguishable particles using an occupation number basis

2002-02-08

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0202051v2

Phys. Rev. A 66, 032305 (2002)

Physics

Quantum Physics

2 figures; added Appendix A; added Figure 2; made changes to take account of v2 of quant-ph/0105120; some typos removed

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.66.032305

Quantum mechanical entanglement is a resource for quantum computation, quantum teleportation, and quantum cryptography. The ability to quantify this resource correctly has thus become of great interest to those working in the field of quantum information theory. In this paper, we show that all existing entanglement measures but one fail important tests of fitness when applied to n particle, m site states of indistinguishable particles, where n,m>=2. The accepted method of measuring the entanglement of a bipartite system of distinguishable particles is to use the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density matrix of one half of the system. We show that expressing the full density matrix using a site-spin occupation number basis, and reducing with respect to that basis, gives an entanglement which meets all currently known fitness criteria for systems composed of either distinguishable or indistinguishable particles. We consider an output state from a previously published thought experiment, a state which is entangled in both spin and spatial degrees of freedom, and show that the site entropy measure gives the correct total entanglement. We also show how the spin-space entanglement transfer occurring within the apparatus can be understood in terms of the transfer of probability from single-occupancy to double-occupancy sectors of the density matrix.

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