Experimental quantification of entanglement in quantum spin systems

Abstract

Entanglement has been extensively studied from the perspective of Quantum Information Processing for the last decade and various measures of entanglement, to quantify it are now available. Experimentally also it has been possible to measure entanglement in pure state, mostly in optics. However, in recent years there has been significant development in Quantum Condensed Matter systems, especially spin chains, where extraction of entanglement has been made possible through macroscopic witness operators like magnetic susceptibility. In this work, we have studied the magnetic properties of some spin chains, where the exchange interaction can be tuned by preparation technique and we have extracted a magnetic field and temperature dependence of entanglement from susceptibility and magnetization data taken at various temperatures and fields. The spin chains considered here fall in two categories, first one is an alternating dimer model and the second is an infinite spin chain. We have given the experimental plots of entanglement as a function of temperature and magnetic fields and compared them with the theoretical plots.