International Journal of Modern Physics B
THE FINITE-SIZE EFFECT ON THE ENTANGLEMENT OF THE QUANTUM ISING CHAIN
Lifa Zhang, Peiqing Tong
Abstract
By using the concurrence, the entanglement of a quantum Ising chain is studied numerically. It is found that there is a gap in the concurrence of the nearest-neighbor spins at the quantum phase transition point for the chain with even spins. The gap disappears as the number of the spins goes to infinite. Except for the critical point, the derivatives of the concurrence display the similar scaling behavior as that of the odd-spin chain.