Decoherence Induced by Spin Chain Environment

We study the decoherence process of an exact solvable model that consists of a central spin-1/2 coupling to the surrounding anisotropy spin-1/2 chain in transverse fields. The Loschrnidt echo is calculated to study the character of decoherence with different degree of anisotropy. Our results show that the degree of anisotropy γ greatly affects the decoherence process of the central spin-system when the spin chain is in weak transverse fields, but it gives weak effect in the strong transverse field. The decoherence process of the central system changed dramatically along the line of the critical points, and this may be explained as the reflection of quantum phase transitions.     

量子纠缠和贝尔不等式及其在量子信息处理中的应用

1964年,爱尔兰数学家约翰·贝尔(John Bell)根据隐变量理论推导出了2个粒子系统的测量结果应该满足的不等式关系和所涉及的测量基本逻辑.法国科学家阿兰·阿斯佩(Alain Aspect)、美国科学家约翰·克劳泽(John Clauser)和奥地利科学家安东·蔡林格(Anton Zeilinger)分别从实验上证伪了该不等式.贝尔不等式的证伪宣告了隐变量理论的终结,展示了量子纠缠的奇特性质.为表彰他们在“纠缠光子实验、验证违反贝尔不等式和开创量子信息科学”方面所做出的贡献,瑞典皇家科学院将2022年诺贝尔物理学奖授予这3位科学家.本文概述了量子纠缠的概念和贝尔不等式的推导,介绍了2022年诺贝尔物理学奖获得者的代表性研究工作,并展示了量子技术的可能应用.     

Discord under the influence of a quantum phase transition

This paper studies the discord of a bipartite two-level system coupling to an XY spin-chain environment in a transverse field and investigates the relationship between the discord property and the environment’s quantum phase transition.The results show that the quantum discord is also able to characterize the quantum phase transitions.We also discuss the difference between discord and entanglement,and show that quantum discord may reveal more general information than quantum entanglement for characterizing the environment’s quantum phase transition.     

Spin-star environment assisted entanglement generation in weakly coupled bipartite systems

We study the entanglement evolution in a weakly coupled bipartite system with a large energy level difference under the influence of spin-star environments. The subsystems can be coupled to a pure state or a thermal equilibrium state spin-star environment. Our results show that, in the case of the coupling strength being less than the energy level difference of the subsystems （weakly coupled）, the spin-star environment can always be used to assist the entanglement generation of the bipartite system.     

Thermal quantum discord in Heisenberg models with Dzyaloshinski-Moriya interaction

We study the quantum discord of the bipartite Heisenberg model with the Dzyaloshinski-Moriya (DM) interaction in thermal equilibrium state and discuss the effect of the DM interaction on the quantum discord. The quantum entanglement of the system is also discussed and compared with quantum discord. Our results show that the quantum discord may reveal more properties of the system than quantum entanglement and the DM interaction may play an important role in the Heisenberg model.     

Geometric phases and quantum phase transitions in inhomogeneous XY spin-chains:Effect of the Dzyaloshinski-Moriya interaction

We study geometric phases of the ground states of inhomogeneous XY spin chains in transverse fields with Dzyaloshinski--Moriya (DM) interaction, and investigate the effect of the DM interaction on the quantum phase transition (QPT) of such spin chains. The results show that the DM interaction could influence the distribution of the regions of QPTs but could not produce new critical points for the spin-chain. This study extends the relation between geometric phases and QPTs.     

低维俘获原子的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚中的有限粒子数效应

基于Thomas-Fermi近似,通过对配分函数的高温展开确定了体系的有效态密度，得到了在忽略相互作用下，低维受俘获原子玻色爱因斯坦凝聚的临界温度,并计算出了临界温度附近体系的比热容随温度的变化行为.研究结果表明：二维情况下，体系的比热容c正比于T²;而在一维情况下，c随温度呈线性增加. 关键词： 玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚 有限粒子数 低维束缚势 Thomas-Fermi近似