The dynamics of entanglement and fidelity for a subsystem of two separate spin-
1∕2 qubits prepared in Bell states is investigated. One of the subsystem qubit labeled
A is under the influence of a Heisenberg
XY spin bath, while another one labeled
B is uncoupled with that. We discuss two cases: (i) the number of bath spins is infinite, $N\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}$, and (ii)
N is finite,
N=40. In both cases, the bath is initially prepared in a thermal equilibrium state. It is shown that the time dependence of the concurrence and the fidelity of the two subsystem qubits can be controlled by tuning the parameters of the spin bath, such as the anisotropic parameter, the temperature, and the coupling strength with qubit
A. It is interesting to find that the dynamics of the concurrence is independent of four different initial Bell states and that of the fidelity is divided into two groups.
We analyze the time evolution of a spin chain of three qubits with nearest-neighbour Heisenberg XX interaction, coupled to two thermal reservoirs. We use the ‘reduced density matrix approach’ to calculate the populations and correlations (concurrence) among the spins. The spin-reservoir interaction is of the energy conserving type. This allows us to analyze the evolution analytically without approximations – yielding explicit, yet complicated formulas for the spin dynamics. To analyze the latter and discuss it as a function of the various physical parameters and time (intial conditions, termperatures, coupling strenghts), we resort to numerical methods. Our main finding is that the external noise (coupling to reservoirs) causes the appearence of an asymptotic, stationary (time-periodic) regime for the dynamics of concurrence. We discuss the dependence of the relaxation time and the characteristics of the regime itself, on the various parameters.
Simple physical interactions between spin-
1∕2 particles may result in quantum states that exhibit exotic correlations that are difficult to find if one simply explores state spaces of multipartite systems. In particular, we present a detailed investigation of the well-known Ising model of a chain (ring) of spin-
1∕2 particles (qubits) in a transverse magnetic field. We present explicit expressions for eigenstates of the model Hamiltonian for arbitrary number of spin-
1∕2 particles in the chain in the standard (computer) basis, and we investigate quantum entanglement between individual qubits. We analyze bipartite as well as multipartite entanglement in the ground state of the model. In particular, we show that bipartite entanglement between pairs of qubits of the Ising chain (measured in terms of a concurrence) as a function of the parameter $\ensuremath{\lambda}$ has a maximum around the point $\ensuremath{\lambda}=1$, and it monotonically decreases for large values of $\ensuremath{\lambda}$. We prove that in the limit $\ensuremath{\lambda}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}$ this state is locally unitary equivalent to an
N-partite Greenberger-Horn-Zeilinger state. We also analyze a very specific eigenstate of the Ising Hamiltonian with a zero eigenenergy (we denote this eigenstate as the
X-state). This
X-state exhibits the ``extreme'' entanglement in a sense that an arbitrary subset
A of $k\ensuremath{\leqslant}n$ qubits in the Ising chain composed of
N=2n+1 qubits is maximally entangled with the remaining qubits (set
B) in the chain. In addition, we prove that by performing a local operation just on the subset
B, one can transform the
X-state into a direct product of
k singlets shared by the parties
A and
B. This property of the
X-state can be utilized for new secure multipartite communication protocols.
We consider the ``transport'' of the state of a spin across a Heisenberg-coupled spin chain via the use of repeated SWAP gates, starting with one of two states---one in which the leftmost spin is down and the others up, and one in which the leftmost two spins are in a singlet state (i.e., they are entangled), and the others are again all up. More specifically, we transport the state of the leftmost spin in the first case and the next-to-leftmost spin in the second to the other end of the chain, and then back again. We accomplish our SWAP operations here by increasing the exchange coupling between the two spins that we operate on from a base value
J to a larger value
JSWAP for a time $t=\ensuremath{\pi}\ensuremath{\hbar}/4{J}_{\text{SWAP}}$. We determine the fidelity of this sequence of operations in a number of situations---one in which only nearest-neighbor coupling exists between spins and there is no magnetic dipole-dipole coupling or noise (the most ideal case), one in which we introduce next-nearest-neighbor coupling, but none of the other effects, and one in which all of these effects are present. In the last case, the noise is assumed to be quasistatic, i.e., the exchange couplings are each drawn from a Gaussian distribution, truncated to only nonnegative values. We plot the fidelity as a function of
JSWAP to illustrate various effects, namely crosstalk due to coupling to other spins, as well as noise, that are detrimental to our ability to perform a SWAP operation. Our theory should be useful to the ongoing experimental efforts in building semiconductor-based spin quantum computer architectures.
The entanglement of two qubits, each defined as an effective two-level, spin 1/2 system, is investigated for the case that the qubits interact via a Heisenberg XY interaction and are subject to decoherence due to population relaxation and thermal effects. For zero temperature, the time-dependent concurrence is studied analytically and numerically for some typical initial states, including a separable (unentangled) initial state. An analytical formula for non-zero steady state concurrence is found for any initial state, and optimal parameter values for maximizing steady state concurrence are given. The steady state concurrence is found analytically to remain non-zero for low, finite temperatures. We also identify the contributions of global and local coherence to the steady state entanglement.