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PERFECT STATE TRANSFER IN XX CHAINS INDUCED BY BOUNDARY MAGNETIC FIELDS

Thorben Linneweber, Joachim Stolze, Götz Silvester Uhrig

Published Apr 1, 2012• 25 citations
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Abstract

A recent numerical study of short chains found near-perfect quantum state transfer between the boundary sites of a spin-1/2 XX chain if a sufficiently strong magnetic field acts on these sites. We show that the phenomenon is based on a pair of states strongly localized at the boundaries of the system and provide a simple quantitative analytical explanation.

DOI
10.1142/s0219749912500293

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