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arXiv:1907.11495 · Physical Review A

Entanglement detection under coherent noise: Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-like states

You Zhou

Published Jan 2, 2020• 17 citations
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Abstract

Entanglement is an essential resource in many quantum information tasks and the entanglement witness is a widely used tool for its detection. In experiments the prepared state generally deviates from the target state due to some noise. Normally the white-noise model is applied to quantifying such a derivation and at the same time reveals the robustness of the witness. However, there may exist other kinds of noise, in which the coherent noise can dramatically ``rotate'' the prepared state. In this way, coherent noise is likely to lead to a failure of detection, even though the underlying state is actually entangled. In this work, we propose an efficient entanglement detection protocol for $N$-partite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ)--like states. The protocol can eliminate the effect of coherent noise and at the same time feedback the corresponding noise parameters, which are beneficial to further improvements of the experiment system. In particular, we consider two experiment-relevant coherent noise models; one is from the unconscious phase accumulation on $N$ qubits, and the other is from the rotation on the control qubit. The protocol effectively realizes a family of entanglement witnesses by postprocessing the measurement results from $N+2$ local measurement settings, which adds only one more setting than the original witness specialized for the GHZ state. Moreover, by considering the trade-off between the detection efficiency and the white-noise robustness, we further reduce the number of local measurements to three without altering the performance under the coherent noise. Our protocol can enhance entanglement detection under coherent noises and act as a benchmark for state-of-the-art quantum devices.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.101.012301

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A Multipartite entangled state has many different kinds of entanglements specified by the number of partitions. The most essential example of multipartite entanglement is the entanglement of multi-qubit Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) state in white noise. We explicitly construct the entanglement witnesses for these states with stabilizer generators of the GHZ states. For an [Formula: see text] qubit GHZ state in white noise, we demonstrate the necessary and sufficient criterion of separability when it is divided into [Formula: see text] parties with [Formula: see text] for arbitrary [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. The criterion covers more than a half of all kinds of partial entanglements for [Formula: see text]-qubit GHZ states in white noise. For the rest of multipartite entanglement problems, we present a method to obtain the sufficient conditions of separability. As an application, we consider [Formula: see text] qubit GHZ state as a codeword of the degenerate quantum code passing through depolarizing channel. We find that the output state is neither genuinely entangled nor fully separable when the quantum channel capacity reduces from positive to zero.
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We develop a necessary condition of quantum correlation. It is utilized to construct a ddd-level bipartite Bell-type inequality which is strongly resistant to noise and requires only analyses of O(d)O(d)O(d) measurement outcomes compared to the previous result O(d2)O({d}^{2})O(d2). Remarkably, a connection between the arbitrary high-dimensional bipartite Bell-type inequality and entanglement witnesses is found. Through the necessary condition of quantum correlation, we propose that the witness operators to detect truly multipartite entanglement for a generalized Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state with two local measurement settings and a four-qubit singlet state with three settings. Moreover, we also propose a robust entanglement witness to detect a four-level tripartite GHZ state with only two local measurement settings.
Certifying entanglement of a multipartite state is generally considered a demanding task. Since an N qubit state is parametrized by 4^{N}-1 real numbers, one might naively expect that the measurement effort of generic entanglement detection also scales exponentially with N. Here, we introduce a general scheme to construct efficient witnesses requiring a constant number of measurements independent of the number of qubits for states like, e.g., Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states, cluster states, and Dicke states. For four qubits, we apply this novel method to experimental realizations of the aforementioned states and prove genuine four-partite entanglement with two measurement settings only.
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