Effects of impurity on the entanglement of the three-qubit Heisenberg XXX spin chain

We investigate the entanglement of the three-qubit Heisenberg XXX chain in the presence of impurity and obtain the analytical expressions of the concurrence C. It is found that for impurity entanglement, C appears only when J ₁ > J for J > 0, and J ₁ > 0 for J < 0, and in these two regions C increases with the increase of J ₁, so is the critical temperature T _c. When J ₁ ≫ | J |, C reaches its maximum value 0.5 and T _c reaches the asymptotic value T _c = 3.41448J ₁. For entanglement between the normal lattices, C appears only when J > 0 and −2J < J ₁ < J, and initially increases with the increase of J ₁ and arrives at the maximum value C _max = (e^4J/T −3)/(e^4J/T + 3) before it decays to zero gradually, so is the critical temperature T _c with, however, the maximum value T _cmax = 4J/In3. Supported by the Natural Science Research Project of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2004A15)