Detection and engineering of spatial mode entanglement with ultracold bosons

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2009
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Goold, John
Heaney, Libby
Busch, Thomas
Vedral, Vlatko
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We outline an interferometric scheme for the detection of bimode and multimode spatial entanglement of finite-temperature interacting Bose gases. Whether entanglement is present in the gas depends on the existence of the single-particle reduced density matrix between different regions of space. We apply the scheme to the problem of a harmonically trapped repulsive boson pair and show that while entanglement is rapidly decreasing with temperature, a significant amount remains for all interaction strengths at zero temperature. Thus, by tuning the interaction parameter, the distribution of entanglement between many spatial modes can be modified.
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Impenetrable bosons , Coherence , systems , Physics , Gases
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Goold, J., Heaney, L., Busch, T. and Vedral, V. (2009) 'Detection and engineering of spatial mode entanglement with ultracold bosons', Physical Review A, 80(2), 022338 (5pp). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.022338
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