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Entanglement negativity spectrum of random mixed states: A diagrammatic approach

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Abstract

The entanglement properties of random pure states are relevant to a variety of problems ranging from chaotic quantum dynamics to black hole physics. The averaged bipartite entanglement entropy of such states follows the celebrated Page curve. In this talk, we discuss how to generalize this setup to random mixed states by coupling the system to a bath and use the partial transpose to study their entanglement properties. We develop a diagrammatic method to incorporate partial transpose within random matrix theory and formulate a perturbation theory in the inverse of the Hilbert space dimension. As long as the bath is smaller than the system, we find that upon sweeping the subregion size, the logarithmic negativity shows an initial increase and a final decrease similar to the Page curve, while it admits a plateau in the intermediate regime where the logarithmic negativity only depends on the size of the system and of the bath but not on how the system is partitioned. This intermediate phase has no analog in random pure states and is separated from the two other regimes by a critical point. We further show that when the bath is larger than the system by at least two extra qubits the logarithmic negativity is identically zero which implies that there is no distillable entanglement.

Presenters

  • Hassan Shapourian

    Harvard University, Microsoft Station Q

Authors

  • Hassan Shapourian

    Harvard University, Microsoft Station Q

  • Shang Liu

    Harvard University

  • Jonah L Kudler-Flam

    University of Chicago

  • Ashvin Vishwanath

    Harvard University, Department of Physics, Harvard University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Harvard University, Department of Physics, Harvard university