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Thermal effects on quantum communication through spin chains
Abolfazl Bayat, Vahid Karimipour
Published 2004-12-15, updated 2005-02-13Version 2
We study the effect of thermal fluctuations in a recently proposed protocol for transmission of unknown quantum states through quantum spin chains. We develop a low temperature expansion for general spin chains. We then apply this formalism to study exactly thermal effects on short spin chains of four spins. We show that optimal times for extraction of output states are almost independent of the temperature which lowers only the fidelity of the channel. Moreover we show that thermal effects are smaller in the anti-ferromagnetic chains than the ferromagnetic ones.
Comments: 14 pages, Latex, five eps figures, references added
Journal: Physical Rev. A, 71, 042330 (2005)
Categories: quant-ph
Keywords: quantum communication, study exactly thermal effects, general spin chains, unknown quantum states, short spin chains
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