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A hierarchy of Hamilton operators and entanglement

  • Willi-Hans Steeb EMAIL logo and Yorick Hardy
From the journal Open Physics

Abstract

We consider a hierarchy of Hamilton operators Ĥ N in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces $$ \mathbb{C}^{2^N } $$. We show that the eigenstates of Ĥ N are fully entangled for N even. We also calculate the unitary operator U N(t) = exp(—Ĥ N t/ħ) for the time evolution and show that unentangled states can be transformed into entangled states using this operator. We also investigate energy level crossing for this hierarchy of Hamilton operators.

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Published Online: 2009-7-21
Published in Print: 2009-12-1

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