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ENTANGLEMENT OF GAUSSIAN STATES Gerardo Adesso

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226 13. Entanglement in Gaussian valence bond states<br />

s<br />

Figure 13.4. Pictorial representation of the entanglement between a probe<br />

(green) mode and its neighbor (magenta) modes on an harmonic ring with an<br />

underlying valence bond structure. As soon as the parameter s (encoding entanglement<br />

in the input port of the valence bond building block) is increased,<br />

pairwise entanglement between the probe mode and its farther and farther<br />

neighbors gradually appears in the corresponding output Gaussian valence<br />

bond states. By translational invariance, each mode exhibits the same entanglement<br />

structure with its respective neighbors. In the limit s → ∞, every<br />

single mode becomes equally entangled with every other single mode on the<br />

ring, independently of their relative distance: the Gaussian valence bond state<br />

is in this case fully symmetric.<br />

critical bosons, which in general do not fall in special subclasses of finite-bonded<br />

GVBS. 32<br />

The valence bond picture however effectively captures the entanglement distribution<br />

in translationally invariant N-mode harmonic rings [GA13], as we are<br />

demonstrating in this Chapter. In this case the GVBS building blocks are equal at<br />

all sites, γ [i] ≡ γ ∀i, while the number of parameters Eq. (11.1) of the target state<br />

reduces, see Sec. 11.2.4, to the number of independent pairwise correlations (only<br />

functions of the distance between the two sites), which by our counting argument is<br />

ΘN ≡ (N − N mod 2)/2. The corresponding threshold for a GVBS representation<br />

becomes M ≥ IntPart[( √ 8ΘN + 1 − 1)/4]. As ΘN is bigger for even N, so it is the<br />

resulting threshold, which means that in general a higher number of EPR bonds<br />

is needed, and so more entanglement is inputed in the GVBS projectors and gets<br />

distributed in the target N-mode Gaussian state, as opposed to the case of an odd<br />

N. This finally clarifies why nearest-neighbor entanglement in ground states of<br />

pure translationally invariant N-mode harmonic rings (which belong to the class of<br />

states characterized by Proposition 1 of Sec. 11.2.2) is frustrated for odd N [272].<br />

13.2.2. Medium-range correlations<br />

Back to the main track, the connection between input entanglement in the building<br />

block and output correlation length in the destination GVBS, can be investigated<br />

in detail considering a general building block γ with s > smin. The GVBS CM<br />

in Eq. (13.3) can still be worked out analytically for a low number of modes, and<br />

32 Recently, analytical progress on the area law issue (complementing the known results for<br />

the noncritical bosonic case [187]) has been obtained for the continuum limit of the real scalar<br />

Klein-Gordon massless field [60]. It is known [202] that the ground state of such critical model<br />

does not admit a GVBS representation with a finite number M of ancillary EPR bonds.

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