Tracking Entanglement Transfer: Emergence of Thermodynamics from Quantum Information

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28961v1
• Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:00:47 GMT
• Title: Tracking Entanglement Transfer: Emergence of Thermodynamics from Quantum Information
• Abstract summary: We study entanglement transfer in a minimal model of two qubits that are coupled with one another through an antiferromagnetic Heisenberg exchange.<n>Remarkably, the resulting physics exhibits properties that bear analogy with a quantum-information theoretic perspective of the physics of black hole thermodynamics.
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• Abstract: We study entanglement transfer in a minimal model of two qubits that are coupled with one another through an antiferromagnetic Heisenberg exchange ($\tilde{J}$), and where one of them is additionally coupled to a fermionic environment through another antiferromagnetic Heisenberg exchange ($J_{K}$). By tuning the coupling ratio $J_{K}/\tilde{J}$, the system undergoes a quantum phase transition at $T=0$, accompanied by a redistribution of entanglement from the $d'-d$ qubit-subsystem to the environment. Remarkably, the resulting physics exhibits properties that bear analogy with a quantum-information theoretic perspective of the physics of black hole thermodynamics. Carefully selected bipartite and tripartite mutual information measures displays behaviour analogous to the dynamical evolution of black hole entropy, Hawking entropy, and the Page curve expected during the process of evaporation. An effective temperature scale is obtained from the variation of the ground state energy with respect to changes in the bipartite mutual information between the subsystem and the bath. A steady growth of this temperature with the coupling ratio resembles that of the Hawking temperature with the inverse mass of the black hole. Concomitantly, the emergence of non-Fermi liquid behaviour observed near the quantum critical point and in the strong-coupling phase resembles strange-metal-like physics expected near the event horizon from a holographic duality perspective. Our results establish the minimal model as a platform for studying entanglement transfer and information scrambling within a fully unitary quantum framework, and offer new insights into a resolution of the black hole information paradox.

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