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Phys. Rev. A 76, 030302(R) (2007) [4 pages]

Freezing distributed entanglement in spin chains

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Irene D’Amico1,*, Brendon W. Lovett2, and Timothy P. Spiller3
1Department of Physics, University of York, York YO10 5DD, United Kingdom
2Department of Materials, University of Oxford, OX1 3PH, United Kingdom
3Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Filton Road, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS34 8QZ, United Kingdom

Received 31 May 2007; published 12 September 2007

We show how to freeze distributed entanglement that has been created from the natural dynamics of spin chain systems. The technique that we propose simply requires single-qubit operations and isolates the entanglement in specific qubits at the ends of branches. Such frozen entanglement provides a useful resource, for example for teleportation or distributed quantum processing. The scheme can be applied to a wide range of systems—including actual spin systems and alternative qubit embodiments in strings of quantum dots, molecules, or atoms.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.76.030302
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.76.030302
PACS:
03.67.Lx, 75.10.Pq, 85.35.−p

*ida500@york.ac.uk