Discord and information deficit in the xx chain

We examine the quantum correlations of spin pairs in the cyclic XX spin-1/2 chain in a transverse field through the analysis of the quantum discord, the geometric discord, and the information deficit. It is shown that while these quantities provide the same qualitative information, being nonzero for...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Ciliberti, Leonardo Francisco Nuncio, Canosa, Norma Beatriz, Rossignoli, Raul Dante
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/23500
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/23500
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Quantum correlations
Quantum Discord
Phase transition
Spin chains
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Sumario:We examine the quantum correlations of spin pairs in the cyclic XX spin-1/2 chain in a transverse field through the analysis of the quantum discord, the geometric discord, and the information deficit. It is shown that while these quantities provide the same qualitative information, being nonzero for all temperatures and separations and exhibiting the same type of asymptotic behavior for large temperatures or separations, important differences arise in the minimizing local measurement that defines them. Whereas the quantum discord prefers a spin measurement perpendicular to the transverse field, the geometric discord and information deficit exhibit a perpendicular-to-parallel transition as the field increases, which subsists at all temperatures and for all separations. Moreover, it is shown that such transition signals the change from a Bell state to an aligned separable state of the dominant eigenstate of the reduced density matrix of the pair. Full exact results for both the thermodynamic limit and the finite chain are provided through the Jordan-Wigner fermionization.