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Control of entanglement transitions in quantum spin clusters

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2017-12-14 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Clustered quantum materials provide a new platform for the experimental study of many-body entanglement. Here we address a simple model of a single-molecule nano-magnet featuring N interacting spins in a transverse field. The field can induce an entanglement transition (ET). We calculate the magnetisation, low-energy gap and neutron-scattering cross-section and find that the ET has distinct signatures, detectable at temperatures as high as 5% of the interaction strength. The signatures are stronger for smaller clusters.

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@article{arxiv.1704.08146,
  title  = {Control of entanglement transitions in quantum spin clusters},
  author = {Hannah R. Irons and Jorge Quintanilla and Toby G. Perring and Luigi Amico and Gabriel Aeppli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08146},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

14 pages, 11 Figures; minor changes; Phys. Rev. B (accepted)