Pairwise entanglement in the Heisenberg XX model with three-site interactions

We investigate the effects of three-site interactions on the pairwise entanglement in a three-qubit Heisenberg XX model. We find the three-site interactions only in favor of the thermal entanglement and benefit the teleportation between the next-to-nearest neighbor qubits. In addition, we also study the stationary entangled state in the model with intrinsic decoherence taken into account. The influence of different types of three-site interactions on the stationary entangled state is then examined.     

匀强及非匀强磁场中Heisenberg XXX链的纠缠研究

研究了匀强及非匀强磁场中反铁磁体Heisenberg XXX链的近邻和次近邻纠缠.结果表明对基态情形,纠缠随磁场B变化呈现阶梯型结构,这可用来构建量子纠缠"放大器"或量子纠缠"开关".对有限温度情形,引进一非匀强磁场Bi=(-1)iB可以使近邻格点间纠缠在某些区域明显增大,而次近邻格点间纠缠则完全消失;同时引进非匀强磁场Bi=(-1)iB还可以使近邻格点纠缠的临界温度Tcn增大,且Tcn随B的增大而升高,这意味着我们可以通过调节B的大小而在任意温度下得到纠缠.     

外磁场下XY模型中两量子位热纠缠的性质及其调控研究

在海森堡XY模型中,为了统一研究均匀磁场和非均匀磁场对系统热纠缠的影响,在两个量子位分别施加独立可控的外磁场(B+b)和(B-b). 发现在均匀磁场和低温条件下的纠缠度有一个稳定的平台区并发生纠缠突变. 控制磁场不均匀度b和选择合适的材料就可以获得最有利的纠缠,并大大提高系统退纠缠的临界温度T_c. 调节磁场的B值,可以在更宽的温度范围内实现此体系的纠缠开关. 关键词： 热纠缠度 密度矩阵 XY模型')" href="#">XY模型     

Entanglement in the three-qubit Heisenberg model with next nearest neighbor interaction and a nonuniform magnetic field

Pairwise thermal entanglement in the three-qubit XXX Heisenberg model with next nearest neighbor interaction and a nonuniform magnetic field has been studied. It's found that the next nearest neighbor interaction has a great effect on the entanglement between the next nearest neighbor sites, but has slight effect on the nearest neighbor entanglement (NNE). Applying a magnetic field at the middle site enhances the next nearest neighbor entanglement (NNNE) sharply when there is a small field at the side sites and the next nearest neighbor coupling constant is positive. A staggered magnetic field helps to maintain nearest neighbor entanglement obviously.     

Sudden Death, Birth and Stable Entanglement in a Two-Qubit Heisenberg XY Spin Chain

Taking the decoherence effect due to population relaxation into account, we investigate the entanglement properties for two qubits in the Heisenberg XY interaction and subject to an external magnetic field. It is found that the phenomenon of entanglement sudden death (ESD) as well as sudden birth (ESB) appear during the evolution process for particular initial states. The influence of the external magnetic field and the spin environment on ESD and ESB are addressed in detail. It is shown that the concurrence, a measure of entanglement, can be controlled by tuning the parameters of the spin chain, such as the anisotropic parameter, external magnetic field, and the coupling strength with their environment. In particular, we find that a critical anisotropy constant exists, above which ESB vanishes while ESD appears. It is also notable that stable entanglement, which is independent of different initial states of the qubits, occurs even in the presence of decoherence.     

内禀退相干下海森伯XY模型中的热纠缠性质及其相干调控

通过求解系统的Milburn方程,研究了内禀退相干下两比特海森伯XY模型中的热纠缠性质. 讨论了非均匀磁场、系统初始纠缠度、 两比特的相对相位对系统热纠缠的调控作用.结果表明:在系统一定的初始条件下, 磁场的引入能够大大提高两比特间的热纠缠 程度;在固有退相干存在的情况下,系统热纠缠强烈依赖于两个自旋比特的初始态, 通过控制两自旋比特的相对相位和振幅,可以 获得系统的稳定热纠缠.结果还表明:在没有外界磁场时,发现Bell正交态是系统的"暗态", 它的热纠缠度在演化过程中不受系 统内禀退相干的影响.     

Entanglement dynamics of a three-qubit system interacting with a quantum spin environment

We investigate the entanglement dynamics and decoherence of a three-qubit system under a quantum spin environment at a finite temperature in the thermodynamics limit. For the case under study, we find the evolution of pairwise entanglement depends not only on the initial states but also on the parameters related to the system and the spin environment. In addition, an undesirable entanglement sudden death occurs in the process of entanglement evolution, and this effect can be controlled by the coupling constant between two qubits, external magnetic field, and the interaction between the system and the environment.     

具有次近邻相互作用的五量子比特XXZ海森伯自旋链的热纠缠

研究具有次近邻相互作用五量子比特XXZ海森伯自旋链在磁场作用下的热纠缠性质,利用数值计算求出最近邻两量子比特和次近邻两量子比特的共生纠缠度(concurrence),分别记为C_(12)和C_(13).研究结果表明,阻挫参数对配对热纠缠具有重要影响,而且阻挫参数的变化对C_(12)和C_(13)的影响也各不相同;温度、磁场、Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya相互作用以及各向异性参数对配对热纠缠有着不同程度的影响;通过选择适当的模型参数,可以有效地调节和提高五量子比特XXZ海森伯自旋链的配对热纠缠.     

Decoherence Effect in An Anisotropic Two-Qubit Heisenberg XYZ Model with Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field

Taking the decoherence effect into account, the entanglement evolution of a two-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ chain in the presence of inhomogeneous magnetic field is investigated. The time evolution of concurrence is studied for the initial state cos θ｜01） ＋ sin θ｜10） at zero temperature. The influences of inhomogeneous magnetic field, anisotropic parameter and decoherence on entanglement dynamic are addressed in detail, and a concurrence formula of the steady state is found. It is shown that the entanglement sudden death （ESD） and entanglement sudden birth （ESB） appear with the decoherence effect, and the stable concurrence depends on the uniform magnetic field B, anisotropic parameter △ and environment coupling strength γ, which is independent of different initial states and nonuniform magnetic field b.     

Delayed creation of entanglement in superconducting qubits interacting with a microwave field

We explore the role played by the intrinsic decoherence in superconducting charge qubits in the presence of a microwave field applied as a magnetic flux. We study how the delayed creation of entanglement, which is opposite to the sudden death of entanglement, can be induced. We compute the time evolution of the population inversion, total correlation and entanglement, taking into account the junction mixed state and dissipation of the cavity field. We show that although decoherence destroys the correlation of the junction and field, information of the initial state may be obtained via quasi-probability distribution functions.     

Thermal Robustness of Entanglement in a Dissipative Two-Dimensional Spin System in an Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field

Recently new novel magnetic phases were shown to exist in the asymptotic steady states of spin systems coupled to dissipative environments at zero temperature. Tuning the different system parameters led to quantum phase transitions among those states. We study, here, a finite two-dimensional Heisenberg triangular spin lattice coupled to a dissipative Markovian Lindblad environment at finite temperature. We show how applying an inhomogeneous magnetic field to the system at different degrees of anisotropy may significantly affect the spin states, and the entanglement properties and distribution among the spins in the asymptotic steady state of the system. In particular, applying an inhomogeneous field with an inward (growing) gradient toward the central spin is found to considerably enhance the nearest neighbor entanglement and its robustness against the thermal dissipative decay effect in the completely anisotropic (Ising) system, whereas the beyond nearest neighbor ones vanish entirely. The spins of the system in this case reach different steady states depending on their positions in the lattice. However, the inhomogeneity of the field shows no effect on the entanglement in the completely isotropic (XXX) system, which vanishes asymptotically under any system configuration and the spins relax to a separable (disentangled) steady state with all the spins reaching a common spin state. Interestingly, applying the same field to a partially anisotropic (XYZ) system does not just enhance the nearest neighbor entanglements and their thermal robustness but all the long-range ones as well, while the spins relax asymptotically to very distinguished spin states, which is a sign of a critical behavior taking place at this combination of system anisotropy and field inhomogeneity.     

Quantum teleportation via a two-qubit Heisenberg <Emphasis Type="Italic">XXZ</Emphasis> chain – effects of anisotropy and magnetic field

We study quantum teleportation via a two-qubit Heisenberg XXZ chain under an inhomogeneous magnetic field. We first consider entanglement teleportation, and then focus on the teleportation fidelity under different conditions. The effects of anisotropy and the magnetic field, both uniform and inhomogeneous, are discussed. We also find that, though entanglement teleportation does require an entangled quantum channel, a nonzero critical value of minimum entanglement is not always necessary.     

Controllable Amplification of Entanglement for Two Qutrits under Decoherence

Entanglement dynamics of a two-qutrit Heisenberg spin chain with the external magnetic fields and DM interaction under the intrinsic decoherence is investigated. Depending on whether there is inhomogeneous magnetic field, the entanglement amplification, i.e. the phenomenon that the finally stable entanglement is bigger than that of the initial one, is found for one kind of initial states. The reasons for the controllable entanglement amplification are discussed.     

Implementation of the Fredkin gate with a three-qubit mixed-spin Heisenberg model

We show that a local unitary(LU) equivalent Fredkin gate can be obtained from the free evolution of three mixed-spin qubits by virtue of numerical simulation with only one step.The spin-1 qubit acts as the control qubit,and two spin-1/2 qubits,which interact with the spin-1 qubit via the first neighbor spin interaction,respectively,play the role of target qubits.We also examine the imperfect Fredkin gate operation by considering the effects of nonidentical coupling constants,uniform and inhomogeneous magnetic fields.     

On Effectiveness of Protocol Creating Maximum Entanglement of Two Charge-Phase Qubits by Cavity Field

We revisit the protocols to create maximally entangled states between two Josephson junction （33） charge phase qubits coupled to a microwave field in a cavity as a quantum data bus. We analyze a novel mechanism of quantum decoherence due to the adiabatic entanglement between qubits and the data bus, the off-resonance microwave field. We show that even if the variable of the data bus can be adiabatically eliminated, the entanglement between the qubits and data bus remains and can decohere the superposition of two-particle state. Fortunately we can construct a decoherencefree subspace of two-dimension to against this adiabatic decoherence. To carry out the analytic study for this decoherence problem, we develop Frohlich transformation to re-derive the effective Hamiltonian of these systems, which is equivalent to that obtained from the adiabatic elimination approach.     

Bipartite and Tripartite Entanglement in a Three-Qubit Heisenberg Model

The bipartite and tripartite entanglement in a three-qubit Heisenberg XY model with a nonuniformmagnetic field is studied. There are two or four peaks in the concurrence of the bipartite entanglement when the amplitudes of the magnetic fields are differently distributed between the three qubits. It is very interesting to note that there is no tangle of tripartite entanglement between the three qubits when the amplitudes of the magnetic fields are varied. However, the variation of the magnetic field direction can induce the tangle. The tangle is periodic about the angle between the magnetic field and the z axis of the spin.     

Bipartite and Tripartite Entanglement in a Three-Qubit Heisenberg Model

The bipartite and tripartite entanglement in a three-qubit Heisenberg XY model with a nonuniform magnetic field is studied. There are two or four peaks in the concurrence of the bipartite entanglement when the amplitudes of the magnetic fields are. differently distributed between the three qubits. It is very interesting to note that there is no tangle of tripartite entanglement between the three qubits when the amplitudes of the magnetic fieMs are varied. However, the variation of the magnetic field direction can induce the tangle. The tangle is periodic about the angle between the magnetic field and the z axis of the spin.     

Effects of inhomogeneous couplings between atoms and acavity field on entanglement dynamics

Based on the concept of concurrence, we have investigated the entanglement dynamics of two two-level atoms coupled to a single-mode cavity field with inhomogeneous couplings. We find that, for some initial states, the inhomogeneous couplings not only induce but also enhance the entanglement in the process of its evolution. In addition, considering the intrinsic decoherence proposed by Milburn, we also find that a proper value of inhomogeneous couplings can enhance the stationary entanglement, and as a result, the destructive effect of intrinsic decoherence on entanglement can be moderated by the inhomogeneous couplings.     

Thermal entanglement of two interacting qubits in a static magnetic field

We study systematically the entanglement of a two-qubit Heisenberg XY model in thermal equilibrium in the presence of an external arbitrarily-directed static magnetic field, thereby generalizing our prior work [G. Lagmago Kamta, A.F. Starace, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 107901 (2002)]. We show that a magnetic field having a component in the xy-plane containing the spin-spin interaction components produces different entanglement for ferromagnetic (FM) and antiferromagnetic (AFM) couplings. In particular, quantum phase transitions induced by the magnetic field-driven level crossings always occur for the AFM-coupled qubits, but only occur in FM-coupled qubits when the coupling is of Ising type or when the magnetic field has a component perpendicular to the xy-plane. When the magnetic field has a component in the xy-plane, the cut-off temperature above which the entanglement of both the FM- and AFM-coupled qubits vanishes can always be controlled using the magnetic field for any value of the XY coupling anisotropy parameter. Thus, by adjusting the magnetic field, an entangled state of two spins can be produced at any finite temperature. Finally, we find that a higher level of entanglement is achieved when the in-plane component of the magnetic field is parallel to the direction in which the XY exchange coupling is smaller.     

Thermal entanglement in the anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ model with different inhomogeneous magnetic fields

Thermal entanglement is investigated in a two-qubit Heisenberg XYZ system with different inhomogeneous magnetic fields. It is found that different magnetic fields have different entanglement and critical values. In addition, according to the relation of spin-spin coupling coefficients, a more efficient control parameter of magnetic field can be obtained by adjusting the direction of external magnetic field.