BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:Data::ICal 0.22 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Mohammad Magrebi\, JQI Maryland/NIST\n\n
\n In recent years\, entanglement has become a main frontier with applications across several fields in physics. Nevertheless\, simple conceptual pictures and practical ways to compute the entanglement\, especially in many-body systems\, have remained elusive. In this talk\, I will consider a simple setup where a d ispersive medium becomes entangled with zero-point fluctuations in the vac uum. I show that the entanglement entropy of the material body with the va cuum can be viewed as the classical thermodynamic entropy in one higher di mension. Such mapping allows us to immediately verify the quantum version of the strong subadditivity property. As a byproduct of our formalism\, I show that the entanglement finds a simple pictorial interpretation in term s of phantom polymers.
\n DTSTART:20150416T193000Z LOCATION:Physics Building\, Room 204 SUMMARY:Entanglement entropy from thermodynamic entropy END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR