Entropy from scattering in weakly interacting systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19127v2
• Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:54:51 GMT
• Title: Entropy from scattering in weakly interacting systems
• Authors: Duncan MacIntyre, Gordon W. Semenoff,
• Abstract summary: We find surprisingly simple criteria for the initial state and the scattering matrix that guarantee that the subsystem entropy increases.<n>The class of states that meet these criteria are more correlated than simple product states of the subsystems.
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• Abstract: Perturbation theory is used to investigate the evolution of the von Neumann entropy of a subsystem of a bipartite quantum system in the course of a gedanken scattering experiment. We find surprisingly simple criteria for the initial state and the scattering matrix that guarantee that the subsystem entropy increases. The class of states that meet these criteria are more correlated than simple product states of the subsystems. They form a subclass of the set of all separable states, and they can therefore be assembled by classical processes alone.

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