We study the thermal entanglement in the two-qubit anisotropic XXZ model an
d the Heisenberg model with Dzyaloshinski-Moriya (DM) interactions. The DM
interaction is another kind of anisotropic antisymmetric exchange interacti
on. The effects of these two kinds of anisotropies on the thermal entanglem
ent are studied in detail for both the antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic
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