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Deutsche Physikalische Gessellschaft IOP Institute of Physics

Magnetic susceptibility as a macroscopic entanglement witness

Marcin Wieśniak1,2,3, Vlatko Vedral1,4 and Časlav Brukner1,5

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We show that magnetic susceptibility can reveal spin entanglement between individual constituents of a solid, while magnetization describes their local properties. We then show that magnetization and its variance (equivalent to magnetic susceptibility for a wide class of systems) satisfy complementary relation in the quantum-mechanical sense. It describes sharing of (quantum) information in the solid between spin entanglement and local properties of its individual constituents. Magnetic susceptibility is shown to be a macroscopic (thermodynamical) spin entanglement witness that can be applied without complete knowledge of the specific model (Hamiltonian) of the solid.


PACS

03.67.Hk Quantum communication

03.65.Ud Entanglement and quantum nonlocality (e.g. EPR paradox, Bell's inequalities, GHZ states, etc.)

75.30.Cr Saturation moments and magnetic susceptibilities

03.65.Ta Foundations of quantum mechanics; measurement theory

Subjects

Computational physics

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Quantum information and quantum mechanics

Dates

Issue 1 (December 2005)

Received 16 September 2005

Published 29 December 2005



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