Entanglement in interacting quenched two-body coupled oscillator system

In this work, we explore the effects of a quantum quench on the entanglement measures of a two-body coupled oscillator system having quartic interaction. We use the invariant operator method, under a perturbative framework, for computing the ground state of this system. We give the analytical expressions for the total and reduced density matrix of the system having non-Gaussian, quartic interaction terms. Using this reduced density matrix, we show the analytical calculation of two entanglement measures viz., Von Neumann entanglement entropy using replica trick and Renyi entanglement entropy. Further, we give a numerical estimate of these entanglement measures with respect to the dimensionless parameter (t/delta t) and show its behavior in the three regimes, i.e., late time behavior, around the quench point and the early time behavior. We comment on the variation of these entanglement measures for different orders of coupling strength. The variation of Renyi entropy of different orders has also been discussed.

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In this work, we investigate the effects of a quantum quench on the entanglement measures of a coupled oscillator system and provide analytical and numerical results. The study reveals that the entanglement measures exhibit different behaviors with respect to the coupling strength and time periods.