Phase transitions and metastability in the distribution of the bipartite entanglement of a large quantum system
arXiv:0911.3888 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.81.052324
Abstract
We study the distribution of the Schmidt coefficients of the reduced density matrix of a quantum system in a pure state. By applying general methods of statistical mechanics, we introduce a fictitious temperature and a partition function and translate the problem in terms of the distribution of the eigenvalues of random matrices. We investigate the appearance of two phase transitions, one at a positive temperature, associated to very entangled states, and one at a negative temperature, signalling the appearance of a significant factorization in the many-body wave function. We also focus on the presence of metastable states (related to 2-D quantum gravity) and study the finite size corrections to the saddle point solution.
23 pages, 32 figures. More details added about the metastable branch and the first-order phase transition
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