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Tuning entanglement by squeezing magnons in anisotropic magnets

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Abstract

We theoretically study the entanglement between two arbitrary spins in a magnetic material, where magnons naturally form a general squeezed coherent state, in the presence of an applied magnetic field and axial anisotropies. Employing concurrence as a measure of entanglement, we demonstrate that spins are generally entangled in thermodynamic equilibrium, with the amount of entanglement controlled by the external fields and anisotropies. As a result, the magnetic medium can serve as a resource to store and process quantum information. We, furthermore, show that the entanglement can jump discontinuously when decreasing the transverse magnetic field. This tunable entanglement can be potentially used as an efficient switch in quantum-information processing tasks.

Presenters

  • Ji Zou

    University of California, Los Angeles

Authors

  • Ji Zou

    University of California, Los Angeles

  • Se Kwon Kim

    Univ of Missouri, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, Columbia, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Missouri, Univ of Missouri - Columbia

  • Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

    Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles, Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, Physics & Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles