Long-distance entanglement in Motzkin and Fredkin spin chains

• Published in: SciPost physics Vol. 7; no. 4; p. 053
• Main Author: Dell'Anna, Luca
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: SciPost 01.10.2019
• ISSN: 2542-4653; 2542-4653
• DOI: 10.21468/SciPostPhys.7.4.053

We derive some entanglement properties of the ground states for two classes of quantum spin chains described by the Fredkin model, for half-integer spins, and the Motzkin model, for integer ones. Since the ground states of the two models are known analytically, we can calculate exactly the entanglement entropy, the negativity and the quantum mutual information. We show, in particular, that these systems exhibit long-distance entanglement, namely two disjoint regions of the chains remain entangled even when their separation is sent to infinity, i.e. these systems are not affected by decoherence. This strongly entangled behavior, Finally, we show that this behavior involves disjoint segments located both at the edges and in the bulk of the chains.