Entropy, entanglement, and area: Analytical results for harmonic lattice systems

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Plenio, M B ^a   Eisert, J ^b   Dreissig J ^b   Cramer, M ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARMONIC LATTICE SYSTEMS; HYPERCUBE; KLEIN-GORDON FIELDS; QUANTUM INFORMATION;

CORRELATION METHODS; ENTROPY; GROUND STATE; HAMILTONIANS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC);

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 18144421896     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.060503     Document Type: Article

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