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Experimental Detection of the Correlation Rényi Entropy in the Central Spin Model
Mohamad Niknam1,2,3, Lea F Santos4, David G Cory1,5
1Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L3G1.
Abstract:
We propose and experimentally measure an entropy that quantifies the volume of correlations among qubits. The experiment is carried out on a nearly isolated quantum system composed of a central spin coupled and initially uncorrelated with 15 other spins. Because of the spin-spin interactions, information flows from the central spin to the surrounding ones forming clusters of multispin correlations that grow in time. We design a nuclear magnetic resonance experiment that directly measures the amplitudes of the multispin correlations and use them to compute the evolution of what we call correlation Rényi entropy. This entropy keeps growing even after the equilibration of the entanglement entropy. We also analyze how the saturation point and the timescale for the equilibration of the correlation Rényi entropy depend on the system size.
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