456 research outputs found
Continuum in the Excitation Spectrum of the S=1 Compound CsNiCl_3
Recent neutron scattering experiments on CsNiCl_3 reveal some features which
are not well described by the nonlinear sigma model nor by numerical
simulations on isolated S=1 spin chains. In particular, in real systems the
intensity of the continuum of multiparticle excitations, at T=6K, is about 5
times greater than predicted. Also the gap is slightly higher and the
correlation length is smaller. We propose a theoretical scenario where the
interchain interaction is approximated by a staggered magnetic field, yielding
to a correct prediction of the observed quantities.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures (.eps), RevTe
The dimer-RVB State of the Four-Leg Heisenberg Ladder: Interference among Resonances
We study the ground state of the 4-leg spin ladder using a dimer-RVB ansatz
and the Lanczos method. Besides the well known resonance mechanism between
valence bond configurations we find novel interference effects among nearby
resonances.Comment: 4 pages, RevTex, 7 eps fig
Quantum correlation dynamics in photosynthetic processes assisted by molecular vibrations
During the long course of evolution, nature has learnt how to exploit quantum
effects. In fact, recent experiments reveal the existence of quantum processes
whose coherence extends over unexpectedly long time and space ranges. In
particular, photosynthetic processes in light-harvesting complexes display a
typical oscillatory dynamics ascribed to quantum coherence. Here, we consider
the simple model where a dimer made of two chromophores is strongly coupled
with a quasi-resonant vibrational mode. We observe the occurrence of wide
oscillations of genuine quantum correlations, between electronic excitations
and the environment, represented by vibrational bosonic modes. Such a quantum
dynamics has been unveiled through the calculation of the negativity of
entanglement and the discord, indicators widely used in quantum information for
quantifying the resources needed to realize quantum technologies. We also
discuss the possibility of approximating additional weakly-coupled off-resonant
vibrational modes, simulating the disturbances induced by the rest of the
environment, by a single vibrational mode.
Within this approximation, one can show that the off-resonant bath behaves
like a classical source of noise
Analytic Relations between Localizable Entanglement and String Correlations in Spin Systems
We study the relation between the recently defined localizable entanglement
and generalized correlations in quantum spin systems. Differently from the
current belief, the localizable entanglement is always given by the average of
a generalized string. Using symmetry arguments we show that in most spin 1/2
and spin 1 systems the localizable entanglement reduces to the spin-spin or
string correlations, respectively. We prove that a general class of spin 1
systems, which includes the Heisenberg model, can be used as perfect quantum
channel. These conclusions are obtained in analytic form and confirm some
results found previously on numerical grounds.Comment: 5 pages, RevTeX
A Systematic Study on Nonrelativistic Quarkonium Interaction
recently proposed strictly phenomenological static quark-antiquark potential
belonging to the generality is
tested with heavy quarkonia in the context of the shifted large N-expansion
method. This nonrelativistic potential model fits the spin-averaged mass
spectra of the and quarkonia within a few
and also the five experimentally known leptonic decay widths of the
and vector states. Further, we compute the hyperfine
splittings of the bottomonium spectrum as well as the fine and hyperfine
splittings of the charmonium spectrum. We give predictions for not yet observed
splittings. The model is then used to predict the masses of the
remaining quarkonia and the leptonic decay widths of the two pseudoscalar
c\bar{b%} states. Our results are compared with other models to gauge the
reliability of the predictions and point out differences.Comment: 24 page
Effective mapping of spin-1 chains onto integrable fermionic models. A study of string and Neel correlation functions
We derive the dominant contribution to the large-distance decay of
correlation functions for a spin chain model that exhibits both Haldane and
Neel phases in its ground state phase diagram. The analytic results are
obtained by means of an approximate mapping between a spin-1 anisotropic
Hamiltonian onto a fermionic model of noninteracting Bogolioubov quasiparticles
related in turn to the XY spin-1/2 chain in a transverse field. This approach
allows us to express the spin-1 string operators in terms of fermionic
operators so that the dominant contribution to the string correlators at large
distances can be computed using the technique of Toeplitz determinants. As
expected, we find long-range string order both in the longitudinal and in the
transverse channel in the Haldane phase, while in the Neel phase only the
longitudinal order survives. In this way, the long-range string order can be
explicitly related to the components of the magnetization of the XY model.
Moreover, apart from the critical line, where the decay is algebraic, we find
that in the gapped phases the decay is governed by an exponential tail
multiplied by algebraic factors. As regards the usual two points correlation
functions, we show that the longitudinal one behaves in a 'dual' fashion with
respect to the transverse string correlator, namely both the asymptotic values
and the decay laws exchange when the transition line is crossed. For the
transverse spin-spin correlator, we find a finite characteristic length which
is an unexpected feature at the critical point. We also comment briefly the
entanglement features of the original system versus those of the effective
model. The goodness of the approximation and the analytical predictions are
checked versus density-matrix renormalization group calculations.Comment: 28 pages, plain LaTeX, 2 EPS figure
On critical phases in anisotropic spin-1 chains
Quantum spin-1 chains may develop massless phases in presence of Ising-like
and single-ion anisotropies. We have studied c=1 critical phases by means of
both analytical techniques, including a mapping of the lattice Hamiltonian onto
an O(2) nonlinear sigma model, and a multi-target DMRG algorithm which allows
for accurate calculation of excited states. We find excellent quantitative
agreement with the theoretical predictions and conclude that a pure Gaussian
model, without any orbifold construction, describes correctly the low-energy
physics of these critical phases. This combined analysis indicates that the
multicritical point at large single-ion anisotropy does not belong to the same
universality class as the Takhtajan-Babujian Hamiltonian as claimed in the
past. A link between string-order correlation functions and twisting vertex
operators, along the c=1 line that ends at this point, is also suggested.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures, svjour format, submitted to Eur. Phys. J.
Spin Chains in an External Magnetic Field. Closure of the Haldane Gap and Effective Field Theories
We investigate both numerically and analytically the behaviour of a spin-1
antiferromagnetic (AFM) isotropic Heisenberg chain in an external magnetic
field. Extensive DMRG studies of chains up to N=80 sites extend previous
analyses and exhibit the well known phenomenon of the closure of the Haldane
gap at a lower critical field H_c1. We obtain an estimate of the gap below
H_c1. Above the lower critical field, when the correlation functions exhibit
algebraic decay, we obtain the critical exponent as a function of the net
magnetization as well as the magnetization curve up to the saturation (upper
critical) field H_c2. We argue that, despite the fact that the SO(3) symmetry
of the model is explicitly broken by the field, the Haldane phase of the model
is still well described by an SO(3) nonlinear sigma-model. A mean-field theory
is developed for the latter and its predictions are compared with those of the
numerical analysis and with the existing literature.Comment: 11 pages, 4 eps figure
Qubit Teleportation and Transfer across Antiferromagnetic Spin Chains
We explore the capability of spin-1/2 chains to act as quantum channels for
both teleportation and transfer of qubits. Exploiting the emergence of
long-distance entanglement in low-dimensional systems [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96,
247206 (2006)], here we show how to obtain high communication fidelities
between distant parties. An investigation of protocols of teleportation and
state transfer is presented, in the realistic situation where temperature is
included. Basing our setup on antiferromagnetic rotationally invariant systems,
both protocols are represented by pure depolarizing channels. We propose a
scheme where channel fidelity close to one can be achieved on very long chains
at moderately small temperature.Comment: 5 pages, 4 .eps figure
Redundancy of classical and quantum correlations during decoherence
We analyze the time dependence of entanglement and total correlations between
a system and fractions of its environment in the course of decoherence. For the
quantum Brownian motion model we show that the entanglement and total
correlations have rather different dependence on the size of the environmental
fraction. Redundancy manifests differently in both types of correlations and
can be related with induced--classicality. To study this we introduce a new
measure of redundancy and compare it with the existing one.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figure
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