Induced entanglement enhanced by quantum criticality

Two-qubit entanglement can be induced by a quantum data bus interacting with them. In this paper, with the quantum spin chain in the transverse field as an illustration of the quantum data bus, we show that such induced entanglement can be enhanced by the quantum phase transition (QPT) of the quantum data bus. We consider two external spins simultaneously coupled to a transverse field Ising chain. By adiabatically eliminating the degrees of the chain, the effective coupling between these two spins is obtained. The matrix elements of the effective Hamiltonian are expressed in terms of the dynamical structure factor (DSF) of the chain. The DSF is the Fourier transformation of the Green function of an Ising chain and can be calculated numerically by a method introduced by Derzhko and Krokhmalskii Phys. Rev. B 56 11659 (1997). Since all characteristics of QPT are embodied in the DSF, the dynamical evolution of the two external spins displays singularity in the vicinity of the critical point.