Analytic results on long-distance entanglement mediated by gapped spin chains

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Ferreira, Aires ^a   Dos Santos, J M B Lopes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFERROMAGNETISM; COMPUTATION THEORY; CORRELATION METHODS; SPIN DYNAMICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

GAPPED SPIN CHAINS; LONG-DISTANCE ENTANGLEMENT; ZERO TEMPERATURE;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 40849139265     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.034301     Document Type: Article

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