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arXiv:0710.3529 · Physical Review A

Scalable method to estimate experimentally the entanglement of multipartite systems

Leandro Aolita, Andreas Buchleitner, Florian Mintert

Published Aug 6, 2008• 43 citations
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Abstract

We present an efficient experimental estimation of the multipartite entanglement of mixed quantum states in terms of simple parity measurements.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.78.022308

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