  The evolution of entanglement in a 3-spin chain with nearest-neighbor
Heisenberg-XY interactions for different initial states is investigated here.
In an NMR experimental implementation, we generate multipartite entangled
states starting from initial separable pseudo-pure states by simulating
nearest-neighbor XY interactions in a 3-spin linear chain of nuclear spin
qubits. For simulating XY interactions, we follow algebraic method of Zhang et
al. [Phys. Rev. A 72, 012331 (2005)]. Bell state between end qubits has been
generated by using only the unitary evolution of the XY Hamiltonian. For
generating W-state and GHZ-state a single qubit rotation is applied on second
and all the three qubits respectively after the unitary evolution of the XY
Hamiltonian.

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