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Phys. Rev. A 71, 022301 (2005) [4 pages]

Quantum-state transmission via a spin ladder as a robust data bus

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Ying Li1, Tao Shi1, Bing Chen1, Zhi Song1,*, and Chang-Pu Sun1,2,†,‡
1Department of Physics, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
2Institute of Theoretical Physics, The Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing 100080, China

Received 7 June 2004; revised 24 November 2004; published 3 February 2005

We explore the physical mechanism to coherently transfer the quantum information of spin by connecting two spins to an isotropic antiferromagnetic spin ladder system as data bus. Due to a large spin gap existing in such a perfect medium, the effective Hamiltonian of the two connected spins can be archived as that of Heisenberg type, which possesses a ground state with maximal entanglement. We show that the effective coupling strength is inversely proportional to the distance of the two spins and thus the quantum information can be transferred between the two spins separated by a longer distance, i.e., the characteristic time of quantum-state transferring linearly depends on the distance.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.71.022301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.71.022301
PACS:
03.67.Hk, 03.67.Pp, 03.65.−w, 05.50.+q

*Electronic address: songtc@nankai.edu.cn

Electronic address: suncp@itp.ac.cn

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