This book covers recent developments in the understanding, quantification, and exploitation of entanglement in spin chain models from both condensed matter and quantum information perspectives. Spin chain models are at the foundation of condensed matter physics and quantum information technologies and elucidate many fundamental phenomena such as information scrambling, quantum phase transitions, and many-body localization. Moreover, many quantum materials and emerging quantum devices are well described by spin chains. Comprising accessible, self-contained chapters written by leading researchers, this book is essential reading for graduate students and researchers in quantum materials and quantum information. The coverage is comprehensive, from the fundamental entanglement aspects of quantum criticality, non-equilibrium dynamics, classical and quantum simulation of spin chains through to their experimental realizations, and beyond into machine learning applications.

This book covers recent developments in the understanding, quantification, and exploitation of entanglement in spin chain models from both condensed matter and quantum information perspectives. Spin chain models are at the foundation of condensed matter physics and quantum information technologies and elucidate many fundamental phenomena such as information scrambling, quantum phase transitions, and many-body localization. Moreover, many quantum materials and emerging quantum devices are well described by spin chains. Comprising accessible, self-contained chapters written by leading researchers, this book is essential reading for graduate students and researchers in quantum materials and quantum information. The coverage is comprehensive, from the fundamental entanglement aspects of quantum criticality, non-equilibrium dynamics, classical and quantum simulation of spin chains through to their experimental realizations, and beyond into machine learning applications.

Michel Gaudin's book La fonction d'onde de Bethe is a uniquely influential masterpiece on exactly solvable models of quantum mechanics and statistical physics. Available in English for the first time, this translation brings his classic work to a new generation of graduate students and researchers in physics. It presents a mixture of mathematics interspersed with powerful physical intuition, retaining the author's unmistakably honest tone. The book begins with the Heisenberg spin chain, starting from the coordinate Bethe Ansatz and culminating in a discussion of its thermodynamic properties. Delta-interacting bosons (the Lieb-Liniger model) are then explored, and extended to exactly solvable models associated to a reflection group. After discussing the continuum limit of spin chains, the book covers six- and eight-vertex models in extensive detail, from their lattice definition to their thermodynamics. Later chapters examine advanced topics such as multi-component delta-interacting systems, Gaudin magnets and the Toda chain.

"The aim of this thesis is to study the quantum entanglement and, in particular, under which circumstances is maximum.In the first place, Bell's inequalities are analyzed from an operational point of view. In particular, we focus on those involving qutrits. The states that maximally violate these inequalities are of the GHZ type, for inequalities involving qubits, and little deformations of GHZ state, for those involving qutrits. This result shows that, although maximum entanglement and non-locality are very close concepts, they are not equivalent.In the second place, multipartite entanglement in spin chains is studied. We use as a figure of merit the hyperdeterminant and two polynomial invariants, S and T. These figures quantify a specific type of quadripartite entanglement, as demonstrated by an analysis of well-known quantum states such as the GHZ or W. In an Ising spin chain, we observe a pronounced peak near the quantum phase transition. Similar results are observed for the XXZ and Haldane- Shastry models for the case of the S and T invariants. For that reason, we conclude that these figures of merit are sensitive to quantum phase transitions.The second part of the thesis focuses on the field of quantum computing. This field has experienced a significant expansion in recent years. Due to this growth, several companies have started to develop prototypes of quantum computers. For this reason, one line of research in quantum computing is to propose methods to benchmark these machines.One of the methods presented in this thesis consists of the exact simulation of a XY spin chain. We propose a circuit that diagonalizes the XY Hamiltonian, which allows simulating time evolution and thermal states as well. Since this model is exactly solvable, the results obtained from a quantum computer can be compared with the theoretical solution. After running this circuit for four qubits on two IBM computers and one from Rigetti computing company, we obtain worse results than expected. With this, we conclude that there are error sources that, in general, are not being taken into account and that become relevant even in such small circuits.Moreover, we propose another method to test quantum computers performance: the simulation of absolutely maximally entangled states. The implementation of these circuits is a hard but necessary test for a quantum computer since the advantage of quantum algorithms lies in the generation of entanglement.Finally, we study the generation of entanglement at the most fundamental level: particle physics. We obtain that the QED interaction at tree-level is dictated by the imposition of maximal entanglement in outgoing particles. We apply the same philosophy in processes involving weak neutral currents obtaining that the weak mixing angle must be pi / 6, very close to the experimental value." -- TDX.

In this dissertation, the momentum-space entanglement properties of several quantum spin chains are investigated. In the second chapter we re- view important results on many-body entanglement. In the third chapter, we numerically study the momentum-space entanglement spectra of bosonic and fermionic formulations of the spin-1/2 XXZ chain [Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 256404 (2014)]. We investigate the behavior of the entanglement gaps, present in both formulations, across quantum phase transitions in the XXZ chain. In both cases, finite size scaling suggests that the entanglement gap closure does not occur at the physical transition points. For bosons, we find that the entan- glement gap depends on the scaling dimension of the conformal field theory as varied by the X X Z anisotropy. For fermions, the infinite entanglement gap present at the XX point persists well past the phase transition at the Heisenberg point. We elaborate on how this may support the numerical study of phase transitions. In the third chapter, we advocate that in certain critical spin chains a gap in the momentum-space entanglement spectrum separates the universal part of the spectrum, which is determined by the associated conformal field theory, from the non-universal part, which is specific to the model [arXiv:1512.09030]. We provide affirmative evidence from multicritical spin-1 chains with low energy sectors described by the SU(2)2 or the SU(3)1 Wess-Zumino-Witten model. In chapter four, we study momentum- space en- tanglement in quantum spin-half ladders [Phys. Rev. B 93, 125107 (2016)]. When the system is gapped, we analytically find the momentum-space entan- glement Hamiltonian is described by a chiral conformal field theory with a central charge of two. When the system is gapless, the entanglement Hamil- tonian consists of one gapless mode that is linear in subsystem momentum and one mode with a flat dispersion relation. We also analytically include the effect of a certain irrelevant terms (in the renormalization group sense) on the entanglement spectrum. In chapter six, we investigate the momentum- space entanglement spectrum after a quantum quench [arXiv:1603.01997]. We show that the momentum-space entanglement spectrum of the XXZ spin- half chain possesses many universal features both in equilibrium and after a quantum quench.