Girvin, Yang Modern Condensed Matter Physics 2019 SSP · Problem 10.12

Non-local Transport in Mesoscopic Systems

Physics — Condensed Matter · dephasing-entanglement-entropy

Problem

Consider the electron reduced density matrix ρe\rho_e in Eq. (10.85). Assume ∣ψ1⟩|\psi_1\rangle and ∣ψ2⟩|\psi_2\rangle have the same norm and are orthogonal to each other, and ρe\rho_e is properly normalized. Calculate the entanglement entropy between the electron and its environment as a function of α\alpha.

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