Wednesday, February 6, 2013

1302.1187 (Hannes Pichler et al.)

Thermal vs. Entanglement Entropy: A Measurement Protocol for Fermionic
Atoms with a Quantum Gas Microscope
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Hannes Pichler, Lars Bonnes, Andrew J. Daley, Andreas M. Läuchli, Peter Zoller
We show how to measure the order-two Renyi entropy of many-body states of spinful fermionic atoms in an optical lattice in equilibrium and non-equilibrium situations. The proposed scheme relies on the possibility to produce and couple two copies of the state under investigation, and to measure the occupation number in a site- and spin-resolved manner, e.g. with a quantum gas microscope. Such a protocol opens the possibility to measure entanglement and test a number of theoretical predictions, such as area laws and their corrections. As an illustration we discuss the interplay between thermal and entanglement entropy for a one dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model at finite temperature, and its possible measurement in an experiment using the present scheme.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.1187

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