Effects of the Next-Nearest-Neighbor Interaction on the Entanglement of the Heisenberg XX Chain
- Received Date: 2006-03-07
- Accepted Date: 2006-05-22
- Available Online: 2006-11-05
Abstract: The pairwise entanglement of the Heisenberg XX chain with next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) interactions was investigated by using the concurrence measure. The results show that for the nearest-neighbor sites, the entanglement may be improved or suppressed depending on the magnitudes of the NNN coupling constant J, while for the next-nearest-neighbor sites, it always increases with the increase of |J|. The critical temperature Tc decreases with the increase of J for the nearest-neighbor entanglement and increases with the increase of |J| for the next-nearest-neighbor entanglement, respectively. We also show that the general Heisenberg XX model still can be used to create the entangled W states of three and four qubits, and that the presence of NNN coupling has no effect on the creation of four-qubit W states, while it shifts the instant of time at which the three-qubit W states are created.