Entanglement and discord for qubits and higher spin systems

Lan Xu, WU Gui-ping, Lin Yan

XIAO SAN MA, Guang Xing Zhao, Jia Yan Zhang +1 more

We investigate the quantum discord in the thermal states for a spin-star model consisting of three parties which include one central spin and the other two outer spins. Our results imply that the quantum correlation can be established between the two outer spins both of which interacting with the central spin independently. From the analysis, we find that the quantum discord and entanglement depends not only on the external magnetic field and the interaction strength but also on the anisotropy parameter and the temperature. Specially, the quantum discord is more robust than the quantum entanglement in the sense that the quantum discord lasts for higher temperatures than the entanglement does.

Jianming Zhou, Xiaoli Hu, Naihuan Jing

Alexander Streltsov, Hermann Kampermann, Dagmar Bruß

Wajid Joyia

We study the quantum correlations in a spin-1/2 (qubit) and spin-1 (qutrit) Heisenberg XY model separately, based on quantum discord (QD) and measurement-induced disturbance (MID) respectively. We find the evidence of the first- and second-order quantum phase transition (QPT) in both spin-1/2 and spin-1 systems. The effect of the temperature, magnetic field and Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya (DM) interactions on QPT and quantum correlation are also investigated. Finally, we observed that the QD and MID are not only vigorous for higher spin systems but also more robust than entanglement.

王仲宵, 王波波