https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2007-00140-7
Effects of phase decoherence on the entanglement of a two-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg XYZ chain with an in-plane magnetic field
Key Laboratory for Optical and Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Department of Physics, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 200062, P.R. China
Corresponding author: a jmliu@phy.ecnu.edu.cn
Received:
31
January
2007
Published online:
4
April
2007
We investigate the phase decoherence effects on
the entanglement of a two-qubit anisotropic Heisenberg model
with a nonuniform magnetic field in the x–z-plane. As a
measure of the entanglement, the concurrence of the system is
calculated. It is shown that when the magnetic field is along the
z-axis, the nonuniform and uniform components of the field have
no influence on the entanglement for the cases of
and
, respectively. But when
the magnetic field is not along the z-axis, both the uniform and
the nonuniform components of the field will introduce the
decoherence effects. It is found that the effects of the
Heisenberg chain's anisotropy in the Z-direction on the
entanglement are dependent on the direction of the field.
Moreover, the larger the initial concurrence is, the higher value
it will exhibit during the time evolution of the system for a
proper set of the parameters ν, Δ, θ, γ
, B and b.
PACS: 03.67.-a – Quantum information / 03.65.Ud – Entanglement and quantum nonlocality (e.g. EPR paradox, Bell's inequalities, GHZ states, etc.) / 75.10.Jm – Quantized spin models
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