中国物理B ›› 2020, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (11): 110308-.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/abbbde

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Meng-Ru Ma(马梦如)1, Yi-Dan Zheng(郑一丹)1, Zhu Mao(毛竹)1,†(), Bin Zhou(周斌)1,()   

  • 收稿日期:2020-08-13 修回日期:2020-09-01 接受日期:1900-01-01 出版日期:2020-11-05 发布日期:2020-11-03

Thermal entanglement in a spin-1/2 Ising–Heisenberg butterfly-shaped chain with impurities

Meng-Ru Ma(马梦如), Yi-Dan Zheng(郑一丹), Zhu Mao(毛竹), and Bin Zhou(周斌)   

  1. Department of Physics, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
  • Received:2020-08-13 Revised:2020-09-01 Accepted:1900-01-01 Online:2020-11-05 Published:2020-11-03
  • Contact: Corresponding author. E-mail: maozhu@hubu.edu.cn Corresponding author. E-mail: binzhou@hubu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 12074101), the Science Fund for the New Century Excellent Talents in University of the Ministry of Education of China (Grant No. NCET-11-0960), and the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (Grant No. 20134208110001).

Abstract:

We investigate the effect of impurities on the thermal entanglement in a spin-1/2 Ising–Heisenberg butterfly-shaped chain, where four interstitial Heisenberg spins are localized on the vertices of a rectangular plaquette in a unit block. By using the transfer-matrix approach, we numerically calculate the partition function and the reduced density matrix of this model. The bipartite thermal entanglement between different Heisenberg spin pairs is quantified by the concurrence. We also discuss the fluctuations caused by the impurities through the uniform distribution and the Gaussian distribution. Considering the effects of the external magnetic field, temperature, Heisenberg and Ising interactions as well as the parameter of anisotropy on the thermal entanglement, our results show that comparing with the case of the clean model, in both the two-impurity model and the impurity fluctuation model the entanglement is more robust within a certain range of anisotropic parameters and the region of the magnetic field where the entanglement occurred is also larger.

Key words: thermal entanglement, Ising-Heisenberg butterfly-shaped chain, impurities, transfer-matrix approach