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Genuine tripartite entanglement in a mixed spin-(1/2,1) Heisenberg tetramer

Quantum Physics 2023-11-30 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

A genuine tripartite entanglement of a mixed spin-(1/2,1) Heisenberg tetramer is rigorously analyzed in a presence of external magnetic field. The couple of mixed spin-(1/2,1) dimers is arranged in a perfect rectangular square plaquette involving two nonequivalent Heisenberg exchange couplings JJ and J1J_1. The degree of a genuine tripartite entanglement is evaluated according to the genuine tripartite negativity NABC{\cal N}_{ABC} defined as a geometric mean of all possible bipartite negativities corresponding to a decomposition into a single spin and the remaining spin dimer NABC{\cal N}_{A|BC}, NBAC{\cal N}_{B|AC} and NCAB{\cal N}_{C|AB} after degrees of freedom of the last fourth spin DD are traced out. Due to the symmetry of a mixed spin-(1/2,1) Heisenberg tetramer two different genuine tripartite negativities for the trimeric system 1/2 ⁣ ⁣1 ⁣ ⁣11/2\!-\!1\!-\!1 and 1/2 ⁣ ⁣1/2 ⁣ ⁣11/2\!-\!1/2\!-\!1 were identified. It was found that the genuine tripartite negativity for the interaction ratio J1/J ⁣< ⁣1J_1/J\!<\!1 becomes nonzero solely in the tripartite system 1/2 ⁣ ⁣1 ⁣ ⁣11/2\!-\!1\!-\!1 at low-enough magnetic fields. The opposite interaction limit J1/J ⁣> ⁣1J_1/J\!>\!1 gives rise to the nonzero genuine tripartite negativity in both tripartite systems in a presence of external magnetic field until the classical ferromagnetic state is achieved. It was shown, that the genuine tripartite negativity of a mixed spin-(1/2,1) Heisenberg tetramer can be detected also at nonzero temperatures. An enhancement of the thermal genuine tripartite negativity through the enlargement of the total spin number of a tripartite system is evidenced. The correlation between the bipartite negativity of two spins and the genuine tripartite negativity is discussed in detail.

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@article{arxiv.2311.17444,
  title  = {Genuine tripartite entanglement in a mixed spin-(1/2,1) Heisenberg tetramer},
  author = {Hana Vargová and Jozef Strečka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.17444},
  year   = {2023}
}

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19 pages, 4 figures