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arXiv:2004.03579 · Physical Review Research

Quantifying tripartite entanglement with entropic correlations

James Schneeloch, Christopher C. Tison, Michael L. Fanto, Shannon M. Ray, Paul M. Alsing

Published Oct 28, 2020• 20 citations
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Abstract

The authors develop techniques to quantify multipartite and high-dimensional entanglement using information-based measures of correlation and uncertainty, and show the large amounts of multi-partite entanglement available in photon triplets generated in third-order Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion
DOI
10.1103/physrevresearch.2.043152

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