29 Sep-1 Oct 2014 Grenoble (France)
Thermodynamic approach to entanglement in many-body systems
Irénée Frérot  1@  
1 : Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon  (Phys-ENS)  -  Website
CNRS : UMR5672, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon
46 allée d'Italie 69007 Lyon -  France

Entanglement properties of ground states of many-body Hamiltonians is a subject of intense research. As a general feature, it has been observed that entanglement entropy of a subsystem is a sub-extensive quantity, in contrast with thermal entropy. We shall however introduce an effective (non-intensive) ground state temperature, enabling to recover a standard thermodynamic interpretation of entanglement entropy, and linking thermodynamic observables to each others in a standard way.



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