Witnessing entanglement by proxy

Entanglement is a ubiquitous feature of low temperature systems and believed to be highly relevant for the dynamics of condensed matter properties and quantum computation even at higher temperatures. The experimental certification of this paradigmatic quantum effect in macroscopic high temperature s...

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Autores: Bäuml, Stefan, Bruß, Dagmar|||0000-0003-4661-2267, Huber, Marcus|||0000-0003-1985-4623, Kampermann, Hermann|||0000-0002-0659-6699, Winter, Andreas|||0000-0001-6344-4870
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:203724
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/203724
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1088/1367-2630/18/1/015002
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Entanglement
Entropy
Thermodynamics
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Resumo:Entanglement is a ubiquitous feature of low temperature systems and believed to be highly relevant for the dynamics of condensed matter properties and quantum computation even at higher temperatures. The experimental certification of this paradigmatic quantum effect in macroscopic high temperature systems is constrained by the limited access to the quantum state of the system. In this paper we show how macroscopic observables beyond the mean energy of the system can be exploited as proxy witnesses for entanglement detection. Using linear and semi-definite relaxations we show that all previous approaches to this problem can be outperformed by our proxies, i.e. entanglement can be certified at higher temperatures without access to any local observable. For an efficient computation of proxy witnesses one can resort to a generalised grand canonical ensemble, enabling entanglement certification even in complex systems with macroscopic particle numbers.