Thermal entanglement of spin chains with quantum critical behavior

Abstract

Results for the characteristics of the macroscopic thermal entanglement for integrable spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic chain models with multispin interactions in the thermodynamic limit are presented. Such interactions cause quantum-phase transitions to incommensurate phases with partial spontaneous magnetization. We have derived exact equations, which determine the thermal and magnetic field behavior of the concurrence of spin chains. The analysis of these equations shows that there exists a critical temperature, below which the thermal entanglement of considered spin chains is nonzero. We have shown that at those quantum-phase transitions, caused by multispin interactions, the thermal entanglement is reduced. Also, we have shown that the thermal entanglement is reduced due to nonzero magnetization of spin chains in the ground state, caused by multispin interactions.