Three-qubit thermal entanglement via entanglement swapping on two-qubit Heisenberg XY chains

Journal Article · Thu Dec 15 04:00:00 EST 2005 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVA.72.0· OSTI ID:20786265

Kao, Zi Chong; Ng, Jezreel; Yeo, Ye ^[1]

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1. Hwa Chong Institution, 673 Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 269735 (Singapore)

In this paper, we consider the generation of a three-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-like thermal state by applying the entanglement swapping scheme of Zukowski et al. [Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 755, 91 (1995)] to three pairs of two-qubit Heisenberg XY chains. The quality of the resulting three-qubit entanglement is studied by analyzing the teleportation fidelity, when it is used as a resource in the teleportation protocol of Karlsson et al. [Phys. Rev. A 58, 4394 (1998)]. We show that even though thermal noise in the original two-qubit states is amplified by the entanglement swapping process, we are still able to achieve nonclassical fidelities for the anisotropic Heisenberg XY chains at finitely higher and higher temperatures by adjusting the strengths of an external magnetic field. This has a positive implication on the solid-state realization of a quantum computer.

• OSTI ID: 20786265
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 72; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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