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arXiv:quant-ph/0401106 · Physical Review Letters

Three-Spin Interactions in Optical Lattices and Criticality in Cluster Hamiltonians

Jiannis K. Pachos, Martin Bodo Plenio

Published Jul 28, 2004• 233 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate that in a triangular configuration of an optical lattice of two atomic species a variety of novel spin-1/2 Hamiltonians can be generated. They include effective three-spin interactions resulting from the possibility of atoms tunneling along two different paths. This motivates the study of ground state properties of various three-spin Hamiltonians in terms of their two-point and n-point correlations as well as the localizable entanglement. We present a Hamiltonian with a finite energy gap above its unique ground state for which the localizable entanglement length diverges for a wide interval of applied external fields, while at the same time the classical correlation length remains finite.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.93.056402

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