Information transport and transport-induced entanglement in open fermion chains

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14153v1
• Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:54:28 GMT
• Title: Information transport and transport-induced entanglement in open fermion chains
• Authors: Andrea Nava, Claudia Artiaco, Yuval Gefen, Igor Gornyi, Mikheil Tsitsishvili, Alex Zazunov, Reinhold Egger,
• Abstract summary: We show that information is key quantity related to - but distinct from - entanglement.<n>We characterize spatially and scale-resolved information currents in nonequilibrium open quantum systems.<n>Our work opens the door to systematic investigations of information transport and entanglement generation in driven open quantum systems.
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• Abstract: Understanding the entanglement dynamics in quantum many-body systems under steady-state transport conditions is an actively pursued challenging topic. Hydrodynamic equations, akin to transport equations for charge or heat, would be of great interest but face severe challenges because of the inherent nonlocality of entanglement and the difficulty of identifying conservation laws. We show that progress is facilitated by using information as key quantity related to - but distinct from - entanglement. Employing the recently developed "information lattice" framework, we characterize spatially and scale-resolved information currents in nonequilibrium open quantum systems. Specifically, using Lindblad master equations, we consider noninteracting fermion chains coupled to dissipative reservoirs. By relating the information lattice to a noise lattice constructed from particle-number fluctuations, we show that information is experimentally accessible via noise easurements. Similarly, local information currents can be obtained by measuring particle currents, onsite occupations, and covariances of particle numbers and/or particle currents. Using the fermionic negativity to quantify bipartite entanglement, we also study transport-induced entanglement and its relation to information currents. For a clean particle-hole symmetric chain, we find that information currents are shielded from entering the information lattice. Impurities or particle-hole asymmetry break this effect, causing information current flow and entanglement between end segments of the chain. Our work opens the door to systematic investigations of information transport and entanglement generation in driven open quantum systems far from equilibrium.

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