Anomalous Local Heat Capacity and Bipartite Entanglement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21508v1
• Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:00:00 GMT
• Title: Anomalous Local Heat Capacity and Bipartite Entanglement
• Abstract summary: Heat capacity of a system quantifies how it energetically responds to changes in temperature at equilibrium.<n>We investigate how the presence of entanglement at equilibrium can influence how an interacting system responds.<n>We find a connection between local heat capacity anomalies and entanglement by deriving a separability bound.
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• Abstract: The heat capacity of a system quantifies how it energetically responds to changes in temperature at equilibrium. Whilst this quantity is positive and even additive for non-interacting systems, self-gravitating systems such as stars or subsystems of strongly interacting quantum systems are known to have negative or anomalous specific heat capacities. In this work, we investigate how the presence of entanglement at equilibrium can influence how an interacting system responds energetically to changes in temperature. We examine the local heat capacity of interacting quantum systems providing an analytical understanding for when anomalies occur. Most interestingly, we find a connection between local heat capacity anomalies and entanglement by deriving a separability bound based on the fluctuations of local and interaction energies. We illustrate our results with two examples (i) a nearest neighbour spin-1/2 chain and (ii) two coupled quantum harmonic oscillators. Lastly, we provide an information-theoretic formula connecting mutual information and athermality to the non-additivity of the heat capacity. Our results provide model-independent thermodynamic entanglement detection bounds and insight into the relationship between quantum correlations and the heat capacity of quantum systems.

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