Entanglement in the quantum Game of Life

Ney PM, Notarnicola S, Montangero S, Morigi G (2022)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2022

Journal

Physical Review A American Physical Society

Book Volume: 105

Article Number: 012416

Journal Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.105.012416

Abstract

We investigate the quantum dynamics of a spin chain that implements a quantum analog of Conway's Game of Life. We solve the time-dependent Schrödinger equation starting with initial separable states and analyze the evolution of quantum correlations across the lattice. We report examples of evolutions leading to all-entangled chains and/or to time oscillating entangling structures and characterize them by means of entanglement and network measures. The quantum patterns result in structures quite different from the classical ones, even in the dynamics of local observables. A peculiar instance is a structure behaving as the quantum analog of a blinker, but that has no classical counterpart.

Additional Organisation(s)

Sonderforschungsbereich/Transregio 306/1: Quantenkooperativität von Licht und Materie - QuCoLiMa

Related research project(s)

Spatio-temporal structures in interacting spin systems (D02) TRR 306: Quantenkooperativität von Licht und Materie – QuCoLiMa Jan. 1, 2021 - Dec. 31, 2024

Involved external institutions

University of Padua / Universita degli Studi di Padova IT Italy (IT) Universität des Saarlandes (UdS) DE Germany (DE)

How to cite

APA:

Ney, P.-M., Notarnicola, S., Montangero, S., & Morigi, G. (2022). Entanglement in the quantum Game of Life. Physical Review A, 105(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.105.012416

MLA:

Ney, Peter-Maximilian, et al. "Entanglement in the quantum Game of Life." Physical Review A 105.1 (2022).

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