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Quantum entanglement patterns in the structure of atomic nuclei within the nuclear shell model
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Quantum entanglement offers a unique perspective into the underlying structure of strongly-correlated systems such as atomic nuclei. In this paper, we use quantum information tools to analyze the structure of light and medium-mass berillyum, oxygen, neon and calcium isotopes within the nuclear shell model. We use different entanglement metrics, including single-orbital entanglement, mutual information, and von Neumann entropies for different equipartitions of the shell-model valence space and identify mode-entanglement patterns related to the energy, angular momentum and isospin of the nuclear single-particle orbitals. We observe that the single-orbital entanglement is directly related to the number of valence nucleons and the energy structure of the shell, while the mutual information highlights signatures of proton-proton and neutron-neutron pairing. Proton and neutron orbitals are weakly entangled by all measures, and in fact have the lowest von Neumann entropies among all possible equipartitions of the valence space. In contrast, orbitals with opposite angular momentum projection have relatively large entropies. This analysis provides a guide for designing more efficient quantum algorithms for the noisy intermediate scale quantum era.
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PÉREZ-OBIOL, Axel, et al. Quantum entanglement patterns in the structure of atomic nuclei within the nuclear shell model. European Physical Journal A. 2023. Vol. 59, num. 240. ISSN 1434-6001. [consulted: 12 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/213406