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

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/abbbde

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.

Keywords: thermal entanglement Ising-Heisenberg butterfly-shaped chain impurities transfer-matrix approach

Received: 13 August 2020
Revised: 01 September 2020
Accepted manuscript online: 01 January 1900

Fund: 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).

Corresponding Authors: ^†Corresponding author. E-mail: maozhu@hubu.edu.cn ^‡Corresponding author. E-mail: binzhou@hubu.edu.cn

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Meng-Ru Ma(马梦如), Yi-Dan Zheng(郑一丹), Zhu Mao(毛竹), and Bin Zhou(周斌) Thermal entanglement in a spin-1/2 Ising–Heisenberg butterfly-shaped chain with impurities 2020 Chin. Phys. B 29 110308

Fig. 1.

A schematic representation of the spin-1/2 Ising–Heisenberg butterfly-shaped chain. The blue balls denote the Heisenberg particles and the red (orange) lines represent the Heisenberg interaction with (without) impurity, while the black balls denote the Ising spins and the green (black) lines represent the Ising interaction with (without) impurity.

Fig. 2.

Concurrence C₁₂ as a function of the impurity parameter η for different values of Δ. Here, J_H = 2J, J = 1, T = 0.1, B = 4, α = 0, and γ = 0.5.

Fig. 3.

Concurrences C₁₂ and C₁₃ as a function of the external magnetic field B for different values of temperature T. Here, J_H = 2J, J = 1, and α = 0. In panels (a) and (c) we display concurrence for Δ = 0.4, panels (b) and (d) for Δ = 0.5. The solid lines and dot lines correspond to the clean model and the two-impurity model, respectively.

Fig. 4.

Density plot of concurrence C₁₂ as a function of the external magnetic field B and temperature T with J_H = 2J and J = 1. In panels (a) and (b) we display C₁₂ for the model with two impurities, where α = 0, γ = 0.5, and η = –0.5. In panels (c) and (d) we display C₁₂ for the clean model, where α = 0, γ = 0, and η = 0. We set Δ = 0.4 in panels (a) and (c), Δ = 0.5 in panels (b) and (d), respectively. The red and blue solid curves are the contours of C₁₂ = 0 which correspond to the two-impurity model and the clean model, respectively.

Fig. 5.

Density plot of concurrence C₁₃ as a function of the external magnetic field B and temperature T with J_H = 2J and J = 1. In panels (a) and (b) we display C₁₃ for the model with two impurities, where α = 0, γ = 0.5, and η = –0.5. In panels (c) and (d) we display C₁₃ for the clean model, where α = 0, γ = 0, and η = 0. We set Δ = 0.4 in panels (a) and (c), Δ = 0.5 in panels (b) and (d), respectively. The red and blue solid curves are the contours of C₁₃ = 0 which correspond to the two-impurity model and the clean model, respectively.

Fig. 6.

The concurrence C₁₂ as a function of the external magnetic field B under different values of temperature T with impurity fluctuations. Here, J_H = 2J, J = 1 and α = 0. In panels (a) and (b) we present the uniform distribution for two impurities, and the Gaussian distribution in panels (c) and (d). For panels (a) and (c) Δ = 0.4, panels (b) and (d) Δ = 0.5. We take the average of 1000 calculations here.

Fig. 7.

The concurrence C₁₃ as a function of the external magnetic field B under different values of temperature T with impurity fluctuations. Here, J_H = 2J, J = 1 and α = 0. In panels (a) and (b) we present the uniform distribution for two impurities, and the Gaussian distribution in panels (c) and (d). For panels (a) and (c) Δ = 0.4, panels (b) and (d) Δ = 0.5. We take the average of 1000 calculations here.

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