Caracterización Ergotrópica del Entrelazamiento de Variable Continua

Beatriz Polo-Rodríguez1, Federico Centrone1,2, Gerardo Adesso3

  • 1ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Avinguda Carl Friedrich Gauss 3, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.

Physical review letters
|February 22, 2026
PubMed
Resumen

Introducimos un nuevo método que utiliza la ergotropía, una medida del trabajo extraíble, para detectar el entrelazamiento en sistemas cuánticos. Este criterio basado en la ergotropía ofrece una alternativa a las medidas de entropía para comprender las correlaciones cuánticas en plataformas ópticas.

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