Efiects of the Next-Nearest-Neighbor Interaction on the Entanglement of the Heisenberg XX Chain *
Ming‐Liang Hu, Tian Dong-Ping
Abstract The pairwise entanglement of the Heisenberg XX chain with next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) interac-tions was investigated by using the concurrence measure. The results show that for the nearest-neighbor sites,the entanglement may be improved or suppressed depending on the magnitudes of the NNN coupling constant J , while for the next-nearest-neighbor sites, it always increases with the increase of jJj . The critical tempera-ture T c decreases with the increase of J for the nearest-neighbor entanglement and increases with the increaseof jJj for the next-nearest-neighbor entanglement, respectively. We also show that the general Heisenberg XXmodel still can be used to create the entangled W states of three and four qubits, and that the presence ofNNN coupling has no efiect on the creation of four-qubit W states, while it shifts the instant of time at whichthe three-qubit W states are created.Key words Heisenberg XX chain, next-nearest-neighbor interaction, thermal entanglement 1 Introduction
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