Ground-State Entanglement in a Coupled-Cavity Model

Abstract

Bipartite entanglement entropies are calculated for the ground state of the two-excitation subspace in a two-site coupled cavity model. Each region in the phase diagram (atomic insulator, polaritonic insulator, photonic superfluid, and polaritonic superfluid) is found to be characterized by unique entanglement properties. In particular, the polaritonic superfluid region exhibits multipartite entanglement among the two atoms and two cavity fields. This system provides a toy model in which a number of intriguing aspects of entanglement can be studied, such as the relationship of entanglement to phase transitions, entanglement of particles with different dimensionality, and the connection between experimentally accessible local observables and entanglement entropies.

5 pages, 4 figures

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