Quantum discord length is enhanced while entanglement length is not by introducing disorder in a spin chain

Classical correlation functions of ground states typically decay exponentially and polynomially, respectively, for gapped and gapless short-range quantum spin systems. In such systems, entanglement decays exponentially even at the quantum critical points. However, quantum discord, an information-the...

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Published in:Physical review. E 2016-01, Vol.93 (1), p.012131-012131, Article 012131
Main Authors: Sadhukhan, Debasis, Roy, Sudipto Singha, Rakshit, Debraj, Prabhu, R, Sen De, Aditi, Sen, Ujjwal
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Language:English
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Summary:Classical correlation functions of ground states typically decay exponentially and polynomially, respectively, for gapped and gapless short-range quantum spin systems. In such systems, entanglement decays exponentially even at the quantum critical points. However, quantum discord, an information-theoretic quantum correlation measure, survives long lattice distances. We investigate the effects of quenched disorder on quantum correlation lengths of quenched averaged entanglement and quantum discord, in the anisotropic XY and XYZ spin glass and random field chains. We find that there is virtually neither reduction nor enhancement in entanglement length while quantum discord length increases significantly with the introduction of the quenched disorder.
ISSN:2470-0045
2470-0053
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.93.012131