Quantum discord surge heralds entanglement revival in an infinite spin chain

A measure of quantum correlation defined from an information-theoretic perspective, namely, quantum discord, is applied to study the time-evolved nonequilibrium state of the infinite anisotropic quantum XY spin chain in a transverse time-dependent field. In particular, we probe whether the collapse...

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Published in:Europhysics letters 2012-05, Vol.98 (3), p.30013
Main Authors: Shekhar Dhar, Himadri, Ghosh, Rupamanjari, Sen(De), Aditi, Sen, Ujjwal
Format: Article
Language:English
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03.67.-a
75.10.Jm
75.10.Pq
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Summary:A measure of quantum correlation defined from an information-theoretic perspective, namely, quantum discord, is applied to study the time-evolved nonequilibrium state of the infinite anisotropic quantum XY spin chain in a transverse time-dependent field. In particular, we probe whether the collapse and revival of nearest-neighbor entanglement of the state seen with a varying initial applied field strength, at a fixed evolution time, may be predicted from the behavior of the quantum correlation measure. For this quantum many-body system, realizable with currently available technology, we find that the revival of entanglement of the evolved state occurs if there is an increase in quantum discord in the vicinity of entanglement collapse.
ISSN:0295-5075
1286-4854
DOI:10.1209/0295-5075/98/30013