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arXiv:1012.0288 · Physical Review B

Effect of randomness on quantum data buses of Heisenberg spin chains

Sangchul Oh, Yun-Pil Shim, Jianjia Fei, Mark G. Friesen, Xuedong Hu

Published Jun 15, 2012• 13 citations

Abstract

A strongly coupled spin chain can mediate long-distance effective couplings or entanglement between remote qubits and can be used as a quantum data bus. We study how the fidelity of a spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain as a spin bus is affected by static random exchange couplings and magnetic fields. We find that, while nonuniform exchange couplings preserve the isotropy of the qubit effective couplings, they cause the energy levels, the eigenstates, and the magnitude of the couplings to vary locally. On the other hand, random local magnetic fields lead to an avoided level crossing for the bus ground-state manifold and cause the effective qubit couplings to be anisotropic. Interestingly, the total magnetic moment of the ground state of an odd-size bus may not be parallel to the average magnetic field. Its alignment depends on both the direction of the average field and the field distribution, in contrast with the ground state of a single spin which always aligns with the applied magnetic field to minimize the Zeeman energy. Lastly, we calculate sensitivities of the spin bus to such local variations, which are potentially useful for evaluating decoherence when dynamical fluctuations in the exchange coupling or magnetic field are considered.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.85.224418

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