Quantification of entanglement entropy in helium by the Schmidt-Slater decomposition method

In this work, we present an investigation on the spatial entanglement entropies in the helium atom by using highly correlated Hylleraas functions to represent the S-wave states. Singletspin 1sns 1 S e states (with n = 1 to 6) and triplet-spin 1sns 3 S e states (with n = 2 to 6) are investigated. As a measure on the spatial entanglement, von Neumann entropy and linear entropy are calculated. Furthermore, we apply the Schmidt-Slater decomposition method on the two-electron wave functions, and obtain eigenvalues of the one-particle reduced density matrix, from which the linear entropy and von Neumann entropy can be determined. e-mail address: [email protected]