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Linking entanglement and quantum phase transitions via density functional theory
2011-06-07
来源:科技处 点击次数:主讲人:Prof. Lianao Wu (Universidad del País Vasco, Spain)
时间:6月7日(周二)16:00-17:00
地 点:数学科学学院 412 教室
备 注:摘要:Density functional theory (DFT) is shown to provide a novel conceptual and computational framework for entanglement in interacting many-body quantum systems. DFT can, in particular, shed light on the intriguing relationship between quantum phase transitions and entanglement. We use DFT concepts to express entanglement measures in terms of the first or second derivative of the ground state energy. We illustrate the versatility of the DFT approach via a variety of analytically solvable models. As a further application we discuss entanglement and quantum phase transitions in the case of mean field approximations for realistic models of many-body systems.