Equilibrium entanglement vanishes at finite temperature
- 19 April 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 71 (15) , 153105
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.71.153105
Abstract
We show that the equilibrium entanglement of a bipartite system having a finite number of quantum states vanishes at finite temperature, for arbitrary interactions between its constituents and with the environment.Keywords
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