Quasiparticle mass enhancement as a measure of entanglement in the Kondo problem

Abstract

We analyze the quantum entanglement between opposite spin projection electrons in the ground state of the Anderson impurity model. In this model, a single level impurity with intralevel repulsion U is tunnel coupled to a free electron gas. The Anderson model presents a strongly correlated many body ground state with mass enhanced quasiparticle excitations. We find, using both analytical and numerical tools, that the quantum entanglement between opposite spin projection electrons is a monotonic universal function of the quasiparticle mass enhancement Z. The mass enhancement, which is used to quantify the correlations in quantum many body systems, could therefore be used to quantify spin entanglement.

5 pages, 4 figures, supplemental material

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