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arXiv:quant-ph/0605176 · Physical Review A

Two qubits can be entangled in two distinct temperature regions

Dominic William Berry, Mark R. Dowling

Published Dec 1, 2006• 15 citations
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Abstract

We have found that for a wide range of two-qubit Hamiltonians the canonical-ensemble thermal state is entangled in two distinct temperature regions. In most cases the ground state is entangled; however we have also found an example where the ground state is separable and there are still two regions. This demonstrates that the qualitative behavior of entanglement with temperature can be much more complicated than might otherwise have been expected; it is not simply determined by the entanglement of the ground state, even for the simple case of two qubits. Furthermore, we prove a finite bound on the number of possible entangled regions for two qubits, thus showing that arbitrarily many transitions from entanglement to separability are not possible. We also show that only one entangled region is possible for the special case of Hamiltonians without magnetic fields.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.74.062301

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We study the pairwise entanglement close to separable ground states of a class of one-dimensional quantum spin models. At T=0T=0T=0 we find that such ground states separate regions, in the space of the Hamiltonian parameters, which are characterized by qualitatively different types of entanglement, namely parallel and antiparallel entanglement; we further demonstrate that the range of the concurrence diverges while approaching separable ground states, therefore evidencing that such states, with uncorrelated fluctuations, are reached by a long range reshuffling of the entanglement. We generalize our results to the analysis of quantum phase transitions occurring in bosonic and fermionic systems. Finally, the effects of finite temperature are considered: At T>0T>0T>0 we evidence the existence of a region where no pairwise entanglement survives, so that entanglement, if present, is genuinely multipartite.
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Thermal entanglement of a two-qubit Heisenberg XYZ chain is studied.It is found that the ground state entanglement maintains a maximal constant until it drops suddenly at a critical magnetic field.Increasing the value of can extend the entanglement region in terms of temperature and magnetic field.At a finite temperature,increasing the anisotropy parameter can enhance and extend the revival entanglement when the magnetic field is beyond the critical point.These results may provide theoretical proof for manipulating the entanglement with magnetic field,strength of interaction and anisotropy parameter.
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