Energy cost of entanglement extraction in complex quantum systems

Cédric Bény, Christopher T. Chubb, Terry Farrelly () and Tobias J. Osborne
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Cédric Bény: Hanyang University (ERICA)
Christopher T. Chubb: University of Sydney
Terry Farrelly: Leibniz Universität Hannover
Tobias J. Osborne: Leibniz Universität Hannover

Nature Communications, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-9

Abstract: Abstract What is the energy cost of extracting entanglement from complex quantum systems? Operationally, we may wish to actually extract entanglement. Conceptually, we may wish to physically understand the entanglement distribution as a function of energy. This is important, especially for quantum field theory vacua, which are extremely entangled. Here we build a theory to understand the energy cost of entanglement extraction. First, we consider a toy model, and then we define the entanglement temperature, relating energy cost to extracted entanglement. Next, we give a physical argument quantifying the energy cost of entanglement extraction in some quantum field vacua. There the energy cost depends on the spatial dimension: in one dimension, for example, it grows exponentially with extracted entanglement. Next, we provide approaches to bound the energy cost of extracting entanglement more generally. Finally, we look at spin chain models numerically to calculate the entanglement temperature using matrix product states.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06153-w

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