The characteristics of pairwise entanglement and local polarization (LP) are dis-cussed by studying the ground state (states) of the Heisenberg XX model. The re-sults show that: the ground state (states) is (are) composed of the micro states with the minimal polarization (0 for even qubit and 1/2 for odd qubit); LP and the prob-ability of the micro state have an intimate relation, i.e. the stronger the LP, the smaller the probability, and the same LP corresponds to the same probability; the pairwise entanglement of the ground state is the biggest in all eigenvectors. It is found that the pairwise entanglement is decreased by the state degeneracy and the system size. The concurrence approaches a fixed value of about 0.3412 (for odd-qubit chain) or 0.3491 (for even-qubit chain) if the qubit number is large enough.
XI XiaoQiang1,2, ZHANG Tao3, YUE RuiHong3,4 & LIU WuMing2 1 Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics, Xi’an Institute of Post and Telecommunications, Xi’an 710061, China
The mixedness of the N-qubit quantum states with exchange symmetry has been studied, and the results show that the linear entropy of the single qubit reduced density matrix （RDM）, which can describe the mixedness, is completely determined by the expectation values 〈Sz〉 and 〈S±〉 for both the pure and the mixed states. The mixedness of the pure states can be used to describe the bipartite entanglement, as an example we have calculated the mixedness of the Dicke state and the spin squeezed Kitagawa-Ueda state. For the mixed states, we determine the mixedness properties of both the ground states and the thermal states in mean-field clusters of spin-1/2 particles interacting via the anisotropy Heisenberg XXZ interaction, and found for the ferromagnetic case （J 〈 0）, the mixedness will approximate to the pairwise entanglement when the anisotropic parameter △ 〉 △c.
Based on the calculation of all the pairwise entanglements in the n （n ≤ 6）-qubit Heisenberg XX open chain with system impurity, we find an important result： pairwise entanglement can only be transferred by an entangled pair. The non-nearest pairwise entanglements will have the possibility to exist as long as there has been even number of qubits in their middle. This point indicates that we can obtain longer distance entanglement in a solid system.
The bipartite entanglement of the two- and three-spin Heisenberg model was investigated by using the concept of negativity. It is found that for the ground-state entanglement of the two-spin model, the negativity always decreases as B increases if △ 〈γ- 1, and it may keep a steady value of 0.5 in the region of B 〈 J[（△＋ 1）2 -γ^2]^1/2 if △ 〉γ-1, while for that of the three-spin model, the negativity exhibits square wave structures if γ=0 or△=0. For thermal states, there are two areas showing entanglement, namely, the main region and the sub-region. The main region exists only when △ 〉 △c （△c =γ- 1 and （γ^2 - 1）/2 for the 2- and 3-spin model respectively） and extends in terms of B and T as A increases, while the sub-region survives only when γ≠0 and shrinks in terms of B and T as △ increases.
