Asymptotic entanglement capacity of the Ising and anisotropic Heisenberg interactions

Abstract

We compute the asymptotic entanglement capacity of the Ising interaction ZZ, the anisotropic Heisenberg interaction XX + YY, and more generally, any two-qubit Hamiltonian with canonical form K = a XX + b YY. We also describe an entanglement assisted classical communication protocol using the Hamiltonian K with rate equal to the asymptotic entanglement capacity.

5 pages, 1 figure; minor corrections, conjecture added