Thermal state entanglement entropy on a quantum graph.

Verga, Alberto D; Elías, Ricardo Gabriel · Phys Rev E · 2019

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

A particle jumps between the nodes of a graph interacting with local spins. We show that the entanglement entropy of the particle with the spin network is related to the length of the minimum cycle basis. The structure of the thermal state is reminiscent of the string net of spin liquids.