{
  "id": "1407.0520",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2014-07-02T11:10:38.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-03-27T10:29:49.000Z",
  "title": "Detailed balance and entanglement",
  "authors": [
    "Rocco Duvenhage",
    "Machiel Snyman"
  ],
  "comment": "v1: 29 pages. v2: Extensively rewritten, including a new section on thermofield dynamics, 21 pages",
  "journal": "J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 48 (2015) 155303",
  "doi": "10.1088/1751-8113/48/15/155303",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "math-ph",
    "math.MP"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study a connection between quantum detailed balance, which is a concept of importance in statistical mechanics, and entanglement. We also explore how this connection fits into thermofield dynamics.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2014-07-02T11:10:38.000Z",
      "abstract": "We establish a connection between quantum detailed balance, which is a concept of importance in statistical mechanics, and entanglement. This is done in terms of quite a general formulation of detailed balance and a suitable representation of state purification.",
      "comment": "29 pages",
      "journal": null,
      "doi": null
    },
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2015-03-27T10:29:49.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "entanglement",
      "quantum detailed balance",
      "general formulation",
      "state purification",
      "importance"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "IOP",
      "journal": "Journal of Physics A Mathematical General",
      "year": 2015,
      "month": "Apr",
      "volume": 48,
      "number": 15,
      "pages": 155303
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 29,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2015JPhA...48o5303D"
    }
  }
}