Physical Review A
Quantum correlation transfer through two parallel XXZ spin chains with phase shift control
Jian Zhang, Bin Shao, Ben‐Qiong Liu, Jian Zou, Qian‐Shu Li, Lian-Ao Wu
Abstract
Transmitting quantum states and entanglement through quantum channels is one of the key requirements for the development of quantum computation. Quantum discord has received much attention in quantum computation. We transfer quantum discord through two parallel XXZ spin chains with phase shift. The maximum discord can be enhanced by the phase shift. It will take more time to obtain an enhanced maximum discord in some cases, but for other cases, both the maximum and speed are enhanced by the phase shift. In the thermodynamic limit, the effect of the phase shift disappears and the maximum discord exponentially decays with increasing of the receiving position. Our results on spin chains are generalized to a family of linear Hamiltonians.