Entanglement structure of a quantum simulator: the two-component Bose-Hubbard model

Abstract: We consider a quantum simulator of the Heisenberg chain with ferromagnetic interactions based on the two-component 1D Bose-Hubbard model at filling equal to two in the strong coupling regime. The entanglement properties of the ground state are compared between the original spin model and the quantum simulator as the interspecies interaction approaches the intraspecies one. A numerical study of the entanglement properties of the quantum simulator state is supplemented with analytical expressions derived from the simulated Hamiltonian. At the isotropic point, the entanglement properties of the simulated system are not properly predicted by the quantum simulator.