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Experimental entanglement entropy without twin copy
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Experimental entanglement entropy without twin copy

Yannick Meurice
arXiv.org
Cornell University
04/15/2024
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.09935
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Abstract

We show that it is possible to estimate experimentally the von Neuman entanglement entropy $S_{A}^{vN}$ of a symmetric bi-partite quantum system $AB$ by using the basic measurement counts for a *single* copy of a prepared state. We use the entropy $S_{AB}^X$ associated with the experimental measurements for this state and the reduced entropy $S_A^X$ obtained by tracing the experimental probabilities over the $B$ half of the system. We conjecture that $S_{A}^{vN}\propto (2S_A^X-S_{AB}^X)$ and demonstrate that it is verified in good approximation using exact diagonalization and analog calculations performed with the publicly available QuEra facilities for chains and ladders of Rydberg atoms. The approximate proportionality constant is of order one for the examples considered. $2S_A^X-S_{AB}^X$ can be calculated easily for many other qubit platforms and appears to be generically robust under measurement errors, although a general proof remains to be found. Similar results are found for the second order R\'enyi entanglement entropy.
Physics - High Energy Physics - Lattice Physics - Quantum Physics

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