Single-copy entanglement in critical spin chains

Details Single-copy entanglement in critical spin chains Single-copy entanglement in critical spin chains

2005-06-29

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0506250v3

Phys. Rev. A 72, 042112 (2005)

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, RevTeX, final version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.72.042112

We introduce the single-copy entanglement as a quantity to assess quantum correlations in the ground state in quantum many-body systems. We show for a large class of models that already on the level of single specimens of spin chains, criticality is accompanied with the possibility of distilling a maximally entangled state of arbitrary dimension from a sufficiently large block deterministically, with local operations and classical communication. These analytical results -- which refine previous results on the divergence of block entropy as the rate at which EPR pairs can be distilled from many identically prepared chains, and which apply to single systems as encountered in actual experimental situations -- are made quantitative for general isotropic translationally invariant spin chains that can be mapped onto a quasi-free fermionic system, and for the anisotropic XY model. For the XX model, we provide the asymptotic scaling of ~(1/6) log_2(L), and contrast it with the block entropy. The role of superselection rules on single-copy entanglement in systems consisting of indistinguishable particles is emphasized.

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