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View SchemaQuantum walk on the line: entanglement and non-local initial conditions
| Authors | G. Abal, R. Siri, A. Romanelli, R. Donangelo |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0507264 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0507264 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.042302 |
| Journal | Physical Review A 73, 042302 (2006); Physical Review A 73 069905(E) (2006); Virtual Journal of Quantum Information, 6 issue 4 (2006) |
| License | http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ |
Abstract
The conditional shift in the evolution operator of a quantum walk generates entanglement between the coin and position degrees of freedom. This entanglement can be quantified by the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density operator (entropy of entanglement). In the long time limit, it converges to a well defined value which depends on the initial state. Exact expressions for the asymptotic (long-time) entanglement are obtained for (i) localized initial conditions and (ii) initial conditions in the position subspace spanned by the +1 and -1 position eigenstates.
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