Effects of Anisotropy on Entanglement in a Two-Qubit Heisenberg XYZ Chain with Intrinsic Decoherence

Abstract

Taking the intrinsic decoherence effect into account, the entanglement of a two-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ chain in the presence of the Dzyaloshinski–Moriya (DM) anisotropic antisymetric interaction is investigated in this paper. Concurrence, the measurement of entanglement, is calculated. Compared with the anisotropic in XY plane, the DM interaction is another kind of anisotropic antisymmetric exchange interaction. It is shown that the intrinsic decoherence obviously suppresses the time evolution of the entanglement. The DM interaction only acts on the time evolution of the entanglement when the initial state is |ψ(0)⟩ = cosα|01⟩ + sinα|10⟩ and weakens the degree of entanglement. The anisotropic in XY plane merely impacts on the time evolution of the entanglement when the system is initially in a state |ψ(0)⟩ = cosα|00⟩ +sinα|11⟩. The sufficiently weak anisotropic in XY plane can effectively enhance the degree of entanglement.