Chinese Physics Letters
Thermal Entanglement in a Two-Qutrit Spin-1 Anisotropic Heisenberg Model
Erhan Albayrak
Abstract
The negativity ( N ) as a measure of thermal entanglement (TE) is studied for a two-qutrit spin-1 anisotropic Heisenberg XXZ chain with Dzyaloshinskii—Moriya (DM) interaction in an inhomogeneous magnetic field in detail. The effects of the DM interaction parameter D z on the thermal variation of the N for given values of the external magnetic field B , a parameter b which controls the inhomogeneity of B and the bilinear interaction parameters J x = J y ≠ J z are obtained. It is found that N persists to higher values and to higher temperatures for the higher values of ± D z and for the higher positive values of J z , i.e. in the antiferromagnetic (AFM) case. When J z < 0, the ferromagnetic (FM) case, and D z is small, and if J z is strong enough to compete with D z , N decreases. In addition, N declines with the increasing values of B and b .