Quantum entanglement in helium

We compute the entanglement of the ground state and several singlet and triplet excited states of the helium atom using high-quality, state-of-the-art wavefunctions. The behaviour of the entanglement of the helium eigenstates is similar to that observed in some exactly soluble two-electron systems....

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Autores: Dehesa, J. S., Koga, T., Yanez, R., Plastino, Ángel Ricardo, Esquivel, R. O.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Repositorio:SEDICI (UNLP)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:sedici.unlp.edu.ar:10915/97901
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/97901
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Física
Ciencias Exactas
Quantum entanglement
Helium atom
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Sumario:We compute the entanglement of the ground state and several singlet and triplet excited states of the helium atom using high-quality, state-of-the-art wavefunctions. The behaviour of the entanglement of the helium eigenstates is similar to that observed in some exactly soluble two-electron systems. In particular, the amount of entanglement exhibited by the eigenstates tends to increase with energy.