Abstract In the last two decades, magnetic, thermodynamic properties and bipartite thermal entanglement in diamond spin clusters and chains have been studied. Such spin structures are presented in various compounds. The ions of Cu2+ in the natural mineral azurite are arranged in a diamond spin chain. There are no studies of the entanglement behaviour during the quantum evolution of such systems. Herein, we consider the evolution of entanglement in the diamond spin-1/2 cluster. This cluster consists of two central spins described by the anisotropic Heisenberg model, which interact with two side spins via Ising interaction. The influence of the interaction coupling with side spins on the entanglement of central spins is investigated. It is shown that choosing the value of this coupling allows us to control the behaviour of entanglement between central spins. As a result, we find conditions for achieving the maximal values of entanglement. In addition, the entanglement behaviour between the side spins, central and side spins, and between a certain spin and the rest of the system is studied. In these cases, the conditions for achieving maximal entanglement are also obtained.
Abstract In the last two decades, magnetic, thermodynamic properties and bipartite thermal entanglement in diamond spin clusters and chains have been studied. Such spin structures are presented in various compounds. The ions of Cu2+ in the natural mineral azurite are arranged in a diamond spin chain. There are no studies of the entanglement behaviour during the quantum evolution of such systems. Herein, we consider the evolution of entanglement in the diamond spin-1/2 cluster. This cluster consists of two central spins described by the anisotropic Heisenberg model, which interact with two side spins via Ising interaction. The influence of the interaction coupling with side spins on the entanglement of central spins is investigated. It is shown that choosing the value of this coupling allows us to control the behaviour of entanglement between central spins. As a result, we find conditions for achieving the maximal values of entanglement. In addition, the entanglement behaviour between the side spins, central and side spins, and between a certain spin and the rest of the system is studied. In these cases, the conditions for achieving maximal entanglement are also obtained.
With the rapid development of quantum information over the last decade, there is a growing need to identify physical systems that can effectively implement quantum computing. One such system is the diamond spin cluster, which appears in various chemical compounds, including the natural mineral azurite, where copper ions are arranged in this structure. Here, we study the time evolution of a diamond spin cluster with Ising-Heisenberg interaction under the influence of a thermal bosonic bath, which simulates the environment. Using negativity as a measure, we analyze the entanglement behavior between the central spins of the system. We demonstrate how the environment influences the presence of entanglement in the system. Specifically, we show that for certain values of the environment parameters, entanglement increases significantly. Furthermore, we identify the conditions under which entanglement reaches its maximum possible values.
The entanglement quantum properties of a spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg model on a symmetrical diamond chain were analyzed. Due to the separable nature of the Ising-type exchange interactions between neighboring Heisenberg dimers, calculation of the entanglement can be performed exactly for each individual dimer. Pairwise thermal entanglement was studied in terms of the isotropic Ising-Heisenberg model and analytical expressions for the concurrence (as a measure of bipartite entanglement) were obtained. The effects of external magnetic field H and next-nearest neighbor interaction J(m) between nodal Ising sites were considered. The ground state structure and entanglement properties of the system were studied in a wide range of coupling constant values. Various regimes with different values of ground state entanglement were revealed, depending on the relation between competing interaction strengths. Finally, some novel effects, such as the two-peak behavior of concurrence versus temperature and coexistence of phases with different values of magnetic entanglement, were observed.
Spins models, despite their simplicity, are known to describe with great precision physical properties of the materials. Of particular interest are the one-dimensional models that present an exact analytical solution, which can be obtained by the transfer matrix method and the decoration-iteration transformation technique. In this thesis, we studied a spin-electron model and two Ising-Heisenberg spin models, where all models are exactly soluble. The first model we investigate concerns a spin-electron diamond chain with Ising spins located on the local sites and mobile electrons dislocated in the interstitial sites under the external magnetic field action. We analyzed the ground states and the correlation between the spins. We show that thermal fluctuations can lead to the emergence of quantum entanglement above the unfrustrated ground states. We also analyze this same model but for different Landé g-factors. We investigated the phase diagrams at zero temperature. We also analyze the magnetization and we show that the magnetic field can cause the emergence of quantum entanglement in some conditions above the non-entanglement ground states. In this same context, we studied the Ising-XYZ diamond model of spin-1/2, with interaction between the second neighbours of the nodal Ising spins, and an external magnetic field applied to the z-axis. We investigate the phase diagram at zero temperature and the quantum entanglement. We notice that the bipartite entanglement between the pairs of Heisenberg interstitial spins in the natural mineral azurite is insensitive to the external magnetic field applied up to approximately 30 K. The third model we studied is a classical-quantum chain consisting of regularly alternating Ising and Heisenberg spins and with two different local anisotropy axes, subject to an applied external magnetic field. We studied the ground states, the magnetization and the susceptibility. It is evidenced that the investigated spin model reproduces magnetic characteristics of the heterobimetallic coordination compound Dy(NO)3(DMSO)2Cu(opba)(DMSO)2. In this thesis we show that the exact soluble spin models can describe with good precision a class of real magnetic materials, which can present interesting magnetic and thermodynamic properties, and quantum entanglement.
Quantum entanglement is one of the most fascinating types of correlation that can be shared only among quantum systems. The Heisenberg chain is one of the simplest quantum chains which exhibits a reach entanglement feature, due to the Heisenberg interaction is quantum coupling in the spin system. The two particles were coupled trough XYZ coupling or simply called as two-qubit XYZ spin, which are the responsible for the emergence of thermal entanglement. These two-qubit operators are bonded to two nodal Ising spins, and this process is repeated infinitely resulting in a diamond chain structure. We will discuss two-qubit thermal entanglement effect on Ising-XYZ diamond chain structure. The concurrence could be obtained straightforwardly in terms of two-qubit density operator elements, using this result, we study the thermal entanglement, as well as the threshold temperature where entangled state vanishes. The present model displays a quite unusual concurrence behavior, such as, the boundary of two entangled regions becomes a disentangled region, this is intrinsically related to the XY-anisotropy in the Heisenberg coupling. Despite a similar property had been found for only two-qubit, here we show in the case of a diamond chain structure, which reasonably represents real materials.
Most quantum entanglement investigations are focused on two qubits or some finite (small) chain structure, since the infinite chain structure is a considerably cumbersome task. Therefore, the quantum entanglement properties involving an infinite chain structure is quite important, not only because the mathematical calculation is cumbersome but also because real materials are well represented by an infinite chain. Thus, in this paper we consider an entangled diamond chain with Ising and anisotropic Heisenberg (Ising-XXZ) coupling. Two interstitial particles are coupled through Heisenberg coupling or simply two-qubit Heisenberg, which could be responsible for the emergence of entanglement. These two-qubit Heisenberg operators are interacted with two nodal Ising spins. An infinite diamond chain is organized by interstitial-interstitial and nodal-interstitial (dimer-monomer) site couplings. We are able to get the thermal average of the two-qubit operator, called the reduced two-qubit density operator. Since these density operators are spatially separated, we could obtain the concurrence (entanglement) directly in the thermodynamic limit. The thermal entanglement (concurrence) is constructed for different values of the anisotropic Heisenberg parameter, magnetic field, and temperature. We also observed the threshold temperature via the parameter of anisotropy, Heisenberg and Ising interaction, external magnetic field, and temperature.
We investigate the thermal entanglement of the spin-1 Ising–Heisenberg diamond chain, which can be regarded as a theoretical model for the homometallic molecular ferrimagnet [ Ni 3 ( C 4 H 2 O 4 ) 2 − ( μ 3 − OH ) 2 ( H 2 O ) 4 ] n ⋅ ( 2 H 2 O ) n . Two cases, i.e., the isotropic Heisenberg (Ising–XXX) coupling model and anisotropic Heisenberg (Ising–XXZ) coupling model, are discussed respectively. The negativity is chosen as the measurement of the thermal entanglement. By means of the transfer-matrix approach, we focus on the effects of biquadratic interaction parameters on the negativity of the infinite spin-1 Ising–Heisenberg diamond chain. In the Ising–XXX coupling model, it is shown that for the case with ferromagnetic coupling the thermal entanglement can be induced by the biquadratic interaction, but the external magnetic field will suppress the occurrence of the entanglement induced by the biquadratic interaction. In the Ising–XXZ coupling model, for the case with antiferromagnetic coupling, due to the biquadratic interaction the effect of the anisotropy parameter on the entanglement will be suppressed at near-zero temperature. Moreover, the biquadratic interaction makes the threshold temperature increase. The effects of the external magnetic field on the thermal entanglement are also discussed, and it is observed that the entanglement revival phenomena exist in both models considered.