Communications in Theoretical Physics ›› 2012, Vol. 58 ›› Issue (01): 39-46.

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Quantum Correlation in Three-Qubit Heisenberg Model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction

TIAN Li-Jun, YAN Yi-Ying, QIN Li-Guo   

  1. Department of Physics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
  • Received: 2012-01-10 Published: 2012-07-15
  • Funding Information: 

    Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 11075101

Abstract: We investigate the pairwise thermal quantum discord in a three-qubit XXZ model with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction. We find that the effects of DM interaction on antiferromagnetic system is distinct from that of ferromagnetic system. The magnetic field supplemented with DM term contribute to enhance the range of quantum discord. It is revealed that the situations where quantum discord fails to indicate a sudden change of groundstate at finite temperature though indicating such a sudden change of groundstate at zero temperature. Dynamics of pairwise thermal quantum discord is considered as well. Thermal quantum discord vanishes in asymptotic limit regardless of its initial values, however, thermal entanglement suddenly disappears in finite time.

Key words: entanglement, quantum discord, decoherence

PACS numbers: 

  • 03.67.Mn