Multipartite entanglement in spin chains
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v3 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We investigate the presence of multipartite entanglement in macroscopic spin chains. We discuss the Heisenberg and the XY model and derive bounds on the internal energy for systems without multipartite entanglement. Based on this we show that in thermal equilibrium the above mentioned spin systems contain genuine multipartite entanglement, even at finite modest temperatures.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0502160,
title = {Multipartite entanglement in spin chains},
author = {Otfried Guehne and Geza Toth and Hans J. Briegel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0502160},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
5 pages, 1 figure, to appear in New J. Phys