Monogamy of entanglement and improved mean-field ansatz for spin lattices

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We consider rather general spin-$1/2$ lattices with large coordination numbers $Z$.

• Based on the monogamy of entanglement and other properties of the concurrence $C$, we derive rigorous bounds for the entanglement between neighboring spins, such as $C\leq 1/\sqrt{Z}$, which show that $C$ decreases for large $Z$.
• In addition, the concurrence $C$ measures the deviation from mean-field behavior and can only vanish if the mean-field ansatz yields an exact ground state of the Hamiltonian.
• Motivated by these findings, we propose an improved mean-field ansatz by adding entanglement.