College of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi
Normal University, Xi'an 710062, China; School of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China; Xi'an Institute of Post and Telecommunication, Xi'an
710061, China
Abstract:
This paper investigates thermal entanglements of a two-qubit
Heisenberg $XY$ chain in the presence of the Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya
anisotropic antisymmetric interaction. By the concept of
concurrence, it is found that the effects of spin--orbit coupling on
the entanglement are different from those of spin--spin model. The
analytical expressions of concurrence are obtained for this model.