Entanglement in phase-space distribution for an anisotropic harmonic oscillator in noncommutative space

Abstract

The bi-partite Gaussian state, corresponding to an anisotropic harmonic oscillator in a noncommutative-space, is investigated with the help of the Simon's separability condition (generalized Peres-Horodecki criterion). It turns out that, in order to exhibit the entanglement between the noncommutative co-ordinates, the parameters (mass and frequency) have to satisfy an unique constraint equation. Exact solutions for the system are obtained after diagonalizing the model, keeping the intrinsic symplectic structure intact. It is shown that, the identification of the entangled degrees of freedom is possible by studying the Wigner quasiprobability distribution in phase-space. We have shown that the co-ordinates are entangled only with the conjugate momentum corresponding to other co-ordinates.