Entanglement and ground states of gapped Hamiltonians

Details Entanglement and ground states of gapped Hamiltonians Entanglement and ground states of gapped Hamiltonians

2008-07-29

arxiv.org/abs/0807.4741v1

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Quantum Physics

91 pages, Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Davis. Chapters 2 and 4 are extended versions of arXiv:math-ph/0606018

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We begin by deriving bounds for the entanglement of a spin with an (adjacent and non-adjacent) interval of spins in an arbitrary pure Finitely Correlated States (FCS). The bounds we derive become exact in the case where one considers the entanglement of a single spin with a half-infinite chain to the right of it. Our result permits a more efficient calculation, numerically and in some cases even analytically, of the entanglement in arbitrary finitely correlated quantum spin chains. We continue the study of entanglement in the setting of ground states of Hamiltonians with a spectral gap. In particular, for $V$ a finite subset of $Z^d$, we let $H_V$ denote a Hamiltonian on $V$ with finite range, finite strength interactions and a unique ground state with a non-vanishing spectral gap. For a density matrix $\rho_A$ that describes the finite-volume restriction to a region $A$ of the unique ground state, we provide a detailed version of a proof by M. Hastings, that the entropy of $\rho_A$ is bounded by a uniform constant $C$. Moreover, we provide a detailed generalization of the 1-dimensional construction of Hastings' approximation to the ground state in dimensions 2 and higher. Finally, we turn our attention to the study of a conjecture central to Quantum Information Theory, the multiplicativity of the maximal output Schatten $p$-norm of quantum channels, for $p > 1$. In particular, we study the output 2-norm for a special class of quantum channels, the depolarized Werner-Holevo channels, and show that multiplicativity holds for a product of two identical channels in this class.

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