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Enhancement of entanglement transfer in a spin chain by phase shift-control

Quantum Physics 2007-07-08 v2

Abstract

We study the effect of a phase shift on the amount of transferrable two-spin entanglement in a spin chain. We consider a ferromagnetic Heisenberg/XY spin chain, both numerically and analytically, and two mechanisms to generate a phase shift, the Aharonov-Casher effect and the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction. In both cases, the maximum attainable entanglement is shown to be significantly enhanced, suggesting its potential usefulness in quantum information processing.

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0610103,
  title  = {Enhancement of entanglement transfer in a spin chain by phase shift-control},
  author = {K. Maruyama and T. Iitaka and F. Nori},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0610103},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages, 5 figures. v2: a fig added, the main text modified a bit