The phenomenon of quantum entanglement has a very important role in quantum mechanics. Particularly, the quantum spin chain provides a platform for theoretical and experimental investigation of many-body entanglement. In this paper, we investigate time evolution of entanglement in a four-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XXZ chain with nearest neighboring (NN), the next nearest neighboring (NNN), and the Dzialoshinskii-Moriya (DM) interactions. Calculations of the entanglement evolution of the Werner state carried out in terms of concurrence for selected ranges of control parameters such as DM interaction, frustration, etc. The results show that for the Werner state, DM interaction and the frustration parameters play important roles. Furthermore, results show that the time evolution of the Werner state entanglement may be useful to capture the quantum phase transitions in quantum magnetic systems.
In the study of thermal entanglement of the Heisenberg spin chain model, one usually considers only the spin interaction between the nearest neighboring qubits. Actually, a generalized Heisenberg model, so-called J1-J2 Heisenberg model, which is constructed by considering the fact that not only the nearest neighboring but also the next nearest neighboring spin interaction also plays an important role. In J1-J2 Heisenberg model, due to the next nearest neighboring spin interaction, the frustration effect can occur and has an important influence on the magnetic properties of the model. In this paper we investigate the thermal entanglement of a five-qubit XXZ Heisenberg spin chain with the next nearest neighboring interaction in a magnetic field. Using the numerical method, we calculate the pairwise concurrences of the nearest neighbouring qubits and the next nearest neighboring qubits, abbreviated as C12 and C13 respectively. The numerical results show that the frustration parameter α has an important effect on the pairwise thermal entanglement. Moreover, C12 and C13 have different variations with the change of the frustration parameter α. Meanwhile, it is found that the temperature, magnetic field, Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya (DM) interaction and anisotropic parameter also have great effects on the thermal entanglement. The increasing of temperature can reduce the thermal entanglement. The magnetic field can enhance the thermal entanglement between both two nearest and next nearest neighboring qubits, but when the magnetic field becomes strong enough, only the thermal entanglement between the two nearest neighboring qubits is suppressed. A certain extent of DM interaction can enhance the thermal entanglement between the two nearest neighboring qubits. But for the next nearest neighboring qubits, without the magnetic field, the increasing of DM interaction mainly enlarge the entanglement vanishing area of frustration parameter α. When the system changes from anisotropic to isotropic state, the entanglement vanishing area also changes obviously for C12 and C13. Thus, we can choose appropriate magnetic field strength, temperature, frustration parameter, DM interaction parameter and anisotropic parameter to effectively control and enhance the thermal entanglement of the system.
We investigate whether the second-order purity-corrected stabilizer Rényi entropy (SRE) of reduced two-qubit density matrices can serve as a reliable local indicator of quantum phase transitions (QPTs) in frustrated quantum spin systems. We consider the one-dimensional isotropic
J1−J2 Heisenberg model, the one-dimensional XXZ
J1−J2 model, and the two-dimensional
J1−J2 Heisenberg model on a
4×4 square lattice. Unlike several previously studied quantum information measures, which fail to detect QPTs in the ground state of these frustrated systems, the reduced ground-state purity-corrected SRE successfully identifies most transitions. For the remaining cases, we consider a low temperature subjacent state, modeled as a statistical mixture of the ground and first excited states with a Maxwell--Boltzmann-type occupation probability. For the 1D isotropic model, the subjacent-state SRE shows a discontinuity at the critical point, yielding
αc(∞)=0.24116, in excellent agreement with established values; the ground-state SRE shows a point of inflection, yielding
αc(∞)=0.2681. For the 1D XXZ model, the subjacent-state SRE reproduces the full anisotropy dependent phase diagram, while the ground-state SRE captures transitions only at low anisotropy. For the 2D model, the subjacent-state SRE detects two transitions, at
αc(4×4)=0.40781 and
0.6208, while the ground-state SRE identifies the second at
0.6230. Compared with conventional two-qubit entanglement, purity-corrected SRE shows a clear advantage in revealing otherwise-invisible phase transitions, establishing it as a robust, efficient, local probe of frustrated quantum criticality.