Pairwise Entanglement Research Articles

Quantum coherence, quantum Fisher information and teleportation in the Ising-Heisenberg spin chain model of a heterotrimetallic Fe − Mn − Cu coordination polymer with magnetic impurity

The effect of non-uniform magnetic fields on the Ising-Heisenberg chain of a heterotrimetallic coordination compound $\mathrm{Fe-Mn-Cu}$, modeling a magnetic impurity on one dimer is studied. This impurity is configured by imposing non-uniform magnetic fields on each sites of $j-$th interstitial ionic dimer $\mathrm{Mn}^{2+}-\mathrm{Cu}^{2+}$ of the chain model. The quantum coherence and pairwise entanglement between spin-1/2 magnetic $\mathrm{Mn}^{2+}-\mathrm{Cu}^{2+}$ ion dimers clearly depend on the site which the impurity is located. It is demonstrated that when the magnetic impurity is considered for one magnetic dimer, by altering Ising nodal exchange interaction and Heisenberg anisotropy parameter of the impurity dimer, the entanglement can be enhanced to the maximal value 1 at a special fixed magnetic field. Moreover, we find that the quantum Fisher information of the model with magnetic impurity behaves considerably different from the original model. Besides of the quantum resources like concurrence, we prove that the quantum Fisher information can be used as new quantum tool for estimating the quantum phase transition in the model under consideration. On the other hand, thermal teleportation can be significantly optimized by adjusting the magnetic impurity, and a strong increase in the average fidelity is observed. Finally, the magnetic impurity can be manipulated to locally control the thermal entanglement, coherence, quantum Fisher information and teleportation unlike the original model where it is done globally.

Quantum and Classical Thermal Correlations in Spin-1 Heisenberg Chain with Alternating Single-Ion Anisotropy

In the present paper, we study the quantum phase transition in a spin-1 Heisenberg model with two and three particles by using pairwise classical and quantum thermal correlations and entanglement measures, that is, the generalized concurrence and the negativity at finite temperatures. We have used thermodynamic functions of particle number and particle susceptibility to characterize the thermodynamical behavior. The pairwise correlations are derived based on a necessary and sufficient condition for the zero-discord state. We obtain analytical results for the coherence-vector representation of a bipartite state. Using the exact diagonalization technique, we demonstrate that the quantum critical points, detected by the particle number and the particle susceptibility, are ultimately in close correspondence to that of thermal pairwise correlations and entanglement measures.

Pairwise quantum correlations in four-level quantum dot systems

In this paper we assume quantum dots can be assimilated to Fermi Hubbard sites when the Coulomb interaction between electrons is higher compared to their tunneling. The study of pairwise entanglement in a small size array of quantum dots allows to model each pair as a quadrit-quadrit system (4 × 4 mixed state) instead of the more common and simplistic approach of describing it in quantum information as a qubit-qubit system. We study the effect of Coulomb interaction and temperature on pairwise entanglement as well as on quantum coherence and total correlations. The crucial results of this study are that entanglement resists better the increase in temperature when the Coulomb interaction is stronger. Moreover, we successfully explain the behavior of these correlations in terms of the energy spectrum, namely the ground state degeneracy and the state energy difference.

Quantum correlation and entanglement in the Heisenberg model with biquadratic interaction on square lattice

We study the bipartite entanglement as well as the correlation content between two partitions of the quantum 2D Heisenberg model with biquadratic interactions, where the $$\theta $$ parameter controls the ratio of the biquadratic and exchange couplings. We also investigate the pairwise entanglement between nearest-neighbor qubits. The calculations were performed for the model on square lattice, in the Neel phase and ferroquadrupolar phase using spin wave theory and Schwinger boson approaches. In the Neel phase that corresponds to range $$-\pi<\theta <0$$ , we use the Dyson–Maleev representation and SU(2) Schwinger boson representation to calculate the von Neumann entropy as function of the biquadratic coupling $$J_\mathrm{{bq}}$$ . In the ferroquadrupolar phase, we use the SU(3) Schwinger boson representation which is adequate to treat this phase.

Generation and distribution of atomic entanglement in coupled-cavity arrays

We study the dynamics of entanglement in a one-dimensional coupled-cavity array, with each cavity containing a two-level atom, via the Jaynes-Cummings-Hubbard (JCH) Hamiltonian in the single-excitation sector. The model features a rich variety of dynamical regimes that can be harnessed for entanglement control. The protocol is based on setting an excited atom above the ground state and further letting it evolve following the natural dynamics of the Hamiltonian. Here we focus on the concurrence between pairs of atoms and its relation to atom-field correlations and the involved free-field modes. We show that the extension and distribution pattern of pairwise entanglement can be manipulated through a judicious tuning of the atom-cavity coupling strength. By also including static noise in the cavity frequencies, we explore the onset of Anderson localization and its interplay with the atomic trapping known to take place in the strong-hopping regime. Remarkably, we find that the stronger the disorder is, the higher are the atom-field correlations, whereas the atomic concurrence responds nonmonotonically. Overall, our work offers a comprehensive account of the machinery of the single-excitation JCH Hamiltonian and contributes to the design of hybrid light-matter quantum networks.

Investigation of bipartite entanglement across the magnetization process of a highly frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg octahedral chain as a new paradigm of the localized-magnon approach

The bipartite entanglement across the magnetization process of a highly frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg octahedral chain is examined within the concept of localized magnons, which enables a simple calculation of the concurrence measuring a strength of the pairwise entanglement between nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor spins from square plaquettes. A full exact diagonalization of the finite-size Heisenberg octahedral chain with up to 4 unit cells (20 spins) evidences an extraordinary high precision of the localized-magnon theory in predicting measures of the bipartite entanglement at sufficiently low temperatures. While the monomer-tetramer phase emergent at low enough magnetic fields exhibits presence (absence) of the bipartite entanglement between the nearest-neighbor (next-nearest-neighbor) spins, the magnon-crystal phase emergent below the saturation field contrarily displays identical bipartite entanglement between the nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor spins. The presented results verify a new paradigm of the localized-magnon approach concerned with a simple calculation of entanglement measures.

Experimental pairwise entanglement estimation for an N-qubit system

Designing and implementing algorithms for medium- and large-scale quantum computers is not easy. In the previous work, we have suggested, and developed, the idea of using machine learning techniques to train a quantum system such that the desired process is “learned,” thus obviating the algorithm design difficulty. This works quite well for small systems. But the goal is macroscopic physical computation. Here, we implement our learned pairwise entanglement witness on Microsoft’s Q#, one of the commercially available gate model quantum computer simulators; we perform statistical analysis to determine reliability and reproducibility; and we show that after training the system in stages for an incrementing number of qubits (2, 3, 4, ...) we can infer the pattern for mesoscopic N from simulation results for three-, four-, five-, six-, and seven-qubit systems. Our results suggest a fruitful pathway for general quantum computer algorithm design and for practical computation on noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices.

Stable and charge-switchable quantum batteries.

A fully operational loss-free quantum battery requires an inherent control over the energy transfer process, with the ability of keeping the energy retained with no leakage. Moreover, it also requires a stable discharge mechanism, which entails that no energy revivals occur as the device starts its energy distribution. Here we provide a scalable solution for both requirements. To this aim, we propose a general design for a quantum battery based on an energy current (EC) observable quantifying the energy transfer rate to a consumption hub. More specifically, we introduce an instantaneous EC operator describing the energy transfer process driven by an arbitrary interaction Hamiltonian. The EC observable is shown to be the root for two main applications: (1) a trapping energy mechanism based on a common eigenstate between the EC operator and the interaction Hamiltonian, in which the battery can indefinitely retain its energy even if it is coupled to the consumption hub, and (2) an asymptotically stable discharge mechanism, which is achieved through an adiabatic evolution eventually yielding vanishing EC. These two independent but complementary applications are illustrated in quantum spin chains, where the trapping energy control is realized through Bell pairwise entanglement and the stability arises as a general consequence of the adiabatic spin dynamics.

Pairwise Entanglement in Double-Tetrahedral Chain with Different Landé g-Factors of the Ising and Heisenberg Spins

The pairwise entanglement is exactly examined in the spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg double-tetrahedral chain with different Land\'e g-factors of the Ising and Heisenberg spins at zero and finite temperatures. It is shown that the phenomenon present in quantum non-chiral ground states is twice as strong as in quantum chiral ground states and that it gradually diminishes with increasing temperature until it completely vanishes at a certain threshold temperature. It is also demonstrated that the strong magnetic field maintains a weak thermal entanglement quite far from the saturation field, although the ground state is non-entangled.

Monogamous nature of Dicke-class of states with two distinct Majorana spinors

Monogamy relations place restrictions on the shareability of quantum corellations in multipartite states. Being an intrinsic quantum feature, monogamy property throws light on {\emph{residual}} entanglement, an entanglement which is not accounted for by the pairwise entanglement in the state. Expressed in terms of suitable pairwise entanglement measures such as concurrence, the monogamy inequality leads to the evaluation of {\emph{tangle}}, a measure of residual entanglement. In this work, we explore monogamy relations in pure symmetric multiqubit states constituted by two distinct spinors, the so-called {\emph{Dicke-class}} of states. Pure symmetric $N$-qubit states constituted by permutation of two orthogonal qubits form the well-known Dicke states. Those $N$-qubit pure symmetric states constructed by permutations of two non-orthogonal qubits are a one-parameter class of generalized Dicke states. With the help of Majorana geometric representation and angular momentum algebra, we analyze the bounds on monogamy inequality, expressed in terms of squared concurrence/squared negativity of partial transpose. We show that the states with equal distribution of the two spinors are more monogamous and hence possess larger residual entanglement when compared to other inequivalent classes with different degeneracy configurations.

Generalized W state of four qubits with exclusively the three-tangle

We single out a class of states possessing only threetangle but distributed all over four qubits. This is a three-site analogue of states from the $W$-class, which only possess globally distributed pairwise entanglement as measured by the concurrence. We perform an analysis for four qubits, showing that such a state indeed exists. To this end we analyze specific states of four qubits that are not convexly balanced as for $SL$ invariant families of entanglement, but only affinely balanced. For these states all possible $SL$-invariants vanish, hence they are part of the $SL$ null-cone. Instead, they will possess at least a certain unitary invariant. As an interesting byproduct it is demonstrated that the exact convex roof is reached in the rank-two case of a homogeneous polynomial $SL$-invariant measure of entanglement of degree $2m$, if there is a state which corresponds to a maximally $m$-fold degenerate solution in the zero-polytope that can be combined with the convexified minimal characteristic curve to give a decomposition of $\rho$. If more than one such state does exist in the zero polytope, a minimization must be performed. A better lower bound than the lowest convexified characteristic curve is obtained if no decomposition of $\rho$ is obtained in this way.

Entanglement dynamics of n-qubit states in a hierarchical environment

In this paper, we will investigate the entanglement dynamics of n-qubit states in a hierarchical environment which contains a single-mode cavity and a reservoir of an infinite number of modes. Our results imply that the time evolution of entanglement depends not only on the coupling strength between the system and the single-mode cavity but also on the correlation time of the reservoir which has no direct interaction with the states. With analysis, we find that the entanglement dynamics exhibits different behaviors in a parameter space depicted by the coupling strength and the correlation time of the reservoir. The effect of the size of the system on the pairwise entanglement is analyzed and the entanglement generation is discussed.

Entanglement in a fermionic spin chain containing a single mobile boson under decoherence

The concurrence between first and the last sites of a fermionic spin chain containing a single boson is rigorously investigated at finite low temperature in the vicinity of a weak homogeneous magnetic field. We consider the boson as a mobile spin-1 particle through the chain and study concurrence without/under decoherence and express some interesting phase flip and bit flip reactions of the pairwise entanglement between first and the last half-spins in the chain. Our investigations show that the concurrence between two considered half-spins has different behavior for various positions of the single boson along the chain. Indeed, we realize that the single boson mobility has an essential role to probe the pairwise entanglement intensity between two spins located at the opposite ends of a fermionic chain. Interestingly, the entanglement remains alive for higher temperatures when the boson is the nearest neighbor of the first fermion. When the boson is at the middle of chain, it is demonstrated that the threshold temperature (at which the concurrence vanishes) versus decoherence rate can be considered as a threshold temperature boundary. These results pave the way to set and interpret the numerical and analytical expressions for utilizing quantum information in realistic scenarios such as quantum state transmission, quantum communication science and quantum information processing, where the both fermion-fermion and fermion-boson correlations should be taken in to account.

Spin squeezing and pairwise entanglement under non-Markovian environments with dynamical decoupling pulses

We study the effect of non-Markovian environments on spin squeezing and pairwise entanglement of a qubit ensemble in the presence of dynamical decoupling pulses. Each qubit of the ensemble interacts with its own environment, and the environments are independent and identical. It is shown that spin squeezing and entanglement may display sudden death, asymptotic vanishing and revival behaviors. Moreover, it is indicated that spin squeezing and entanglement can be protected effectively by employing appropriate pulse separate time and pulse number as well as non-Markovian properties.

Thermal Entanglement Between Atoms in the Four-Cavity Linear Chain Coupled by Single-Mode Fibers

Natural thermal entanglement between atoms of a linear arranged four coupled cavities system is studied. The results show that there is no thermal pairwise entanglement between atoms if atom-field interaction strength f or fiber-cavity coupling constant J equals to zero, both f and J can induce thermal pairwise entanglement in a certain range. Numerical simulations show that the nearest neighbor concurrence CAB is always greater than alternate concurrence CAC in the same condition. In addition, the effect of temperature T on the entanglement of alternate qubits is much stronger than the nearest neighbor qubits.

Quantum Correlation in the XY Spin Model with Anisotropic Three-Site Interaction

We investigate pairwise entanglement and quantum discord (QD) in the XY spin model with anisotropic three-site interaction at zero and finite temperatures. For both the nearest-neighbor spins and the next nearest-neighbor spins, special attention is paid to the dependence of entanglement and QD on the anisotropic parameter $\delta $ induced by the next nearest-neighbor spins. We show that the behavior of QD differs in many ways from entanglement under the influences of the anisotropic three-site interaction at finite temperatures. More important, comparing the effects of $\delta $ on the entanglement and QD, we find the anisotropic three-site interaction plays an important role in the quantum correlations at zero and finite temperatures. It is found that $\delta $ can strengthen the quantum correlation for both the nearest-neighbor spins and the next nearest-neighbor spins, especially for the nearest-neighbor spins at low temperature.

Relay entanglement and clusters of correlated spins

Considering a spin-1/2 chain, we suppose that the entanglement passes from a given pair of particles to another one, thus establishing the relay transfer of entanglement along the chain. Therefore, we introduce the relay entanglement as a sum of all pairwise entanglements in a spin chain. For more detailed studying the effects of remote pairwise entanglements, we use the partial sums collecting entanglements between the spins separated by up to a certain number of nodes. The problem of entangled cluster formation is considered, and the geometric mean entanglement is introduced as a characteristic of quantum correlations in a cluster. Generally, the lifetime of a cluster decreases with an increase in its size.

Thermal entanglement in a five-qubit XXZ Heisenberg spin chain with the next nearest neighboring interaction

In the study of thermal entanglement of the Heisenberg spin chain model, one usually considers only the spin interaction between the nearest neighboring qubits. Actually, a generalized Heisenberg model, so-called J1-J2 Heisenberg model, which is constructed by considering the fact that not only the nearest neighboring but also the next nearest neighboring spin interaction also plays an important role. In J1-J2 Heisenberg model, due to the next nearest neighboring spin interaction, the frustration effect can occur and has an important influence on the magnetic properties of the model. In this paper we investigate the thermal entanglement of a five-qubit XXZ Heisenberg spin chain with the next nearest neighboring interaction in a magnetic field. Using the numerical method, we calculate the pairwise concurrences of the nearest neighbouring qubits and the next nearest neighboring qubits, abbreviated as C12 and C13 respectively. The numerical results show that the frustration parameter α has an important effect on the pairwise thermal entanglement. Moreover, C12 and C13 have different variations with the change of the frustration parameter α. Meanwhile, it is found that the temperature, magnetic field, Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya (DM) interaction and anisotropic parameter also have great effects on the thermal entanglement. The increasing of temperature can reduce the thermal entanglement. The magnetic field can enhance the thermal entanglement between both two nearest and next nearest neighboring qubits, but when the magnetic field becomes strong enough, only the thermal entanglement between the two nearest neighboring qubits is suppressed. A certain extent of DM interaction can enhance the thermal entanglement between the two nearest neighboring qubits. But for the next nearest neighboring qubits, without the magnetic field, the increasing of DM interaction mainly enlarge the entanglement vanishing area of frustration parameter α. When the system changes from anisotropic to isotropic state, the entanglement vanishing area also changes obviously for C12 and C13. Thus, we can choose appropriate magnetic field strength, temperature, frustration parameter, DM interaction parameter and anisotropic parameter to effectively control and enhance the thermal entanglement of the system.

Magnetic quantum correlations in the one-dimensional transverse-field XXZ model

One-dimensional spin-1/2 systems are well-known candidates to study the quantum correlations between particles. In the condensed matter physics, studies often are restricted to the 1st neighbor particles. In this work, we consider the 1D XXZ model in a transverse magnetic field (TF) which is not integrable except at specific points. Analytical expressions for quantum correlations (entanglement and quantum discord) between spin pairs at any distance are obtained for both zero and finite temperature, using an analytical approach proposed by Caux et al. [PRB 68, 134431 (2003)]. We compare the efficiency of the QD with respect to the entanglement in the detection of critical points (CPs) as the neighboring spin pairs go farther than the next nearest neighbors. In the absence of the TF and at zero temperature, we show that the QD for spin pairs farther than the 2nd neighbors is able to capture the critical points while the pairwise entanglement is absent. In contrast to the pairwise entanglement, two-site quantum discord is effectively long-range in the critical regimes where it decays algebraically with the distance between pairs. We also show that the thermal quantum discord between neighbor spins possesses strong distinctive behavior at the critical point that can be seen at finite temperature and, therefore, spotlights the critical point while the entanglement fails in this task.

Deterministic Generation of All-Photonic Quantum Repeaters from Solid-State Emitters

Quantum repeaters are nodes in a quantum communication network that allow reliable transmission of entanglement over large distances. It was recently shown that highly entangled photons in so-called graph states can be used for all-photonic quantum repeaters, which require substantially fewer resources compared to atomic-memory based repeaters. However, standard approaches to building multi-photon entangled states through pairwise probabilistic entanglement generation severely limit the size of the state that can be created. Here, we present a protocol for the deterministic generation of large photonic repeater states using quantum emitters such as semiconductor quantum dots and defect centers in solids. We show that arbitrarily large repeater states can be generated using only two coupled emitters, reducing the necessary number of photon sources by six orders of magnitude. Our protocol includes a built-in redundancy which makes it resilient to photon loss.