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Quantum entanglement in trimer spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains with antiferromagnetic coupling

Quantum Physics 2015-04-14 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

The quantum entanglement measure is determined, for the first time, for antiferromagnetic trimer spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains. The physical quantity proposed to measure the entanglement is the distance between states by adopting the Hilbert-Schmidt norm. The method is applied to the new magnetic Cu(II) trimer system, 2b.3CuCl_2.2H_2O, and to the trinuclear Cu(II) halide salt, (3MAP)_2Cu_2Cl_8. The decoherence temperature, above which the entanglement is suppressed, is determined for the both systems. A correlation among their decoherence temperatures and their respective exchange coupling constants is established.

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@article{arxiv.1502.07000,
  title  = {Quantum entanglement in trimer spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains with antiferromagnetic coupling},
  author = {O. M. Del Cima and D. H. T. Franco and S. L. L. da Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.07000},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, two references were added, [9](S. Sahling et al., Nature Physics 11 (2015) 255) and [19](G. Toth, Phys.Rev.A 69 (2004) 052327)