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Spin-spin interaction in the bulk of topological insulators
We apply mean-field theory and Hirsch-Fye quantum Monte Carlo method to study
the spin-spin interaction in the bulk of three-dimensional topological
insulators. We find that the spin-spin interaction has three different
components: the longitudinal, the transverse and the transverse
Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya-like terms. When the Fermi energy is located in the bulk
gap of topological insulators, the spin-spin interaction decays exponentially
due to Bloembergen-Rowland interaction. The longitudinal correlation is
antiferromagnetic and the transverse correlations are ferromagnetic. When the
chemical potential is in the conduction or valence band, the spin-spin
interaction follows power law decay, and isotropic ferromagnetic interaction
dominates in short separation limit.Comment: 9 pages, 10 figure
Assisted optimal state discrimination without entanglement
A fundamental problem in quantum information is to explore the roles of
different quantum correlations in a quantum information procedure. Recent work
[Phys. Rev. Lett., 107 (2011) 080401] shows that the protocol for assisted
optimal state discrimination (AOSD) may be implemented successfully without
entanglement, but with another correlation, quantum dissonance. However, both
the original work and the extension to discrimination of states [Phys. Rev.
A, 85 (2012) 022328] have only proved that entanglement can be absent in the
case with equal a \emph{priori} probabilities. By improving the protocol in
[Sci. Rep., 3 (2013) 2134], we investigate this topic in a simple case to
discriminate three nonorthogonal states of a qutrit, with positive real
overlaps. In our procedure, the entanglement between the qutrit and an
auxiliary qubit is found to be completely unnecessary. This result shows that
the quantum dissonance may play as a key role in optimal state discrimination
assisted by a qubit for more general cases.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures. Accepted by EPL. We extended the protocol for
assisted optimal state discrimination to the case with positive real
overlaps, and presented a proof for the absence of entanglemen
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