This study presents an analytical investigation of entanglement quantification in three-qubit pure states through the Acín canonical representation, which serves as a generalization of the two-qubit Schmidt decomposition. Driven by the intricacies of multipartite entanglement and the shortcomings of current measures, we employ a global concurrence measure derived from the generalized concurrence of various bipartitions within the system. The characteristics of this measure are explored both analytically and numerically across a range of SLOCC entanglement classes, such as product, biseparable, GHZ-type, and W-type states. When compared to the three-tangle and tripartite negativity, our findings indicate that this measure yields complementary insights into multipartite correlations. The outcomes underscore the significance of this measure in elucidating the structure and distribution of entanglement within three-qubit quantum systems.
This study presents an analytical investigation of entanglement quantification in three-qubit pure states through the Acín canonical representation, which serves as a generalization of the two-qubit Schmidt decomposition. Driven by the intricacies of multipartite entanglement and the shortcomings of current measures, we employ a global concurrence measure derived from the generalized concurrence of various bipartitions within the system. The characteristics of this measure are explored both analytically and numerically across a range of SLOCC entanglement classes, such as product, biseparable, GHZ-type, and W-type states. When compared to the three-tangle and tripartite negativity, our findings indicate that this measure yields complementary insights into multipartite correlations. The outcomes underscore the significance of this measure in elucidating the structure and distribution of entanglement within three-qubit quantum systems.
The focal point of this thesis is strongly based on quantum entanglement within Quantum Information Science. We provide an indepth analysis of entanglement quantification in both bipartite and multipartite quantum systems, with an emphasis on many-body entanglement. We examine the definitions of entanglement, introduce several entanglement measures, and examine the challenges in expanding these measures to multipartite scenarios. For bipartite systems, we detail entropy-based measures such as von Neumann and Rényi entropies, the entanglement spectrum and important algebraic metrics such as negativity and concurrence. We then elaborate on multipartite entanglement, introducing modern measures and detection techniques including geometric and global entanglement measurements, generalised multipartite concurrence, multipartite negativity, fidelity-based entanglement benchmarks, and entanglement witnesses. Some examples include Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ), and the W states to illustrate the distinction between biseparable and truly multi-partite-entangled states, as well as the SLOCC classification of families of entangled states. We also briefly introduce practical ways of measuring entanglement, such as the SWAP test, quantum state tomography for experimental estimation of entanglement and consequently randomised measurements. We apply these measures to specific quantum states (GHZ, W , graph states, and random states), analysing how entanglement evolves under operations and how different metrics capture distinct features of multi-qubit entanglement. Finally, we conclude with a summary of findings, a discussion of current limitations such as scalability of measures. The thesis is organised into five chapters: Introduction, Entanglement, Multipartite Entanglement Measures, Negativity vs. Three-Tangle, and Conclusion.
Multipartite entanglement is an indispensable resource in quantum communication and computation; however, it is a challenging task to faithfully quantify this global property of multipartite quantum systems. In this work we study the concurrence fill, which admits a geometric interpretation to measure genuine tripartite entanglement for the three-qubit system [Xie and Eberly, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 040403 (2021)]. First, we use the well-known three-tangle and bipartite concurrence to reformulate this quantifier for all pure states. We then construct an explicit example to conclusively show that the concurrence fill can be increased under local operations and classical communication (LOCC) on average, implying it is not an entanglement monotone. Moreover, we give a simple proof of the LOCC monotonicity of the three-tangle and find that the bipartite concurrence and the squared concurrence can have distinct performances under the same LOCC. Finally, we propose a reliable monotone to quantify genuine tripartite entanglement, which can also be easily generalized to the multipartite system. Our results shed light on the study of genuine entanglement and also reveal the complex structure of multipartite systems.
We study entanglement in a system of three coupled quantum harmonic oscillators. Specifically, we use the Schmidt decomposition to analyze how the entanglement is distributed among the three subsystems. The Schmidt decomposition is a powerful mathematical tool for characterizing bipartite entanglement in composite quantum systems. It allows to write a multipartite quantum state as a sum of product states between the subsystems, with coefficients known as Schmidt coefficients. We apply this decomposition to the general quantum state of three coupled oscillators and study how the Schmidt coefficients evolve as the interaction strengths between the oscillators are varied. This provides insight into how entanglement is shared between the different bipartitions of the overall three-particle system. Our results advance the fundamental understanding of multipartite entanglement in networked quantum systems. They also have implications for quantum information processing using multiple entangled nodes.
Abstract Classification of multipartite pure states via the local unitary (LU) equivalence or the stochastic local operations and classical communication (SLOCC) equivalence is a fundamental task in investigating multipartite entanglement. It is shown in the seminal paper (2000 Phys . Rev . A 62 062314) that pure states of three qubits can be partitioned into six SLOCC classes. We explore here a necessary and sufficient condition for LU equivalence of pure states for any SLOCC class via Acín et al ’s Schmidt coefficients (ASC) of three qubits in (2000 Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 1560). We show that the LU equivalent states in W SLOCC class have the same ASC irrespective of phases while there are generally two different ASCs for the LU equivalent states in GHZ SLOCC class (irrespective of phases for some subclass). Consequently, we obtain a complete LU classification of three qubit pure states in the sense of ASC. Moreover, we discuss the choice among the different ASCs and then propose an approach to find a unique ASC for any given three qubit pure state. At last we analyse the entanglement/separability of the marginal states of the two inequivalent genuine entangled SLOCC classes. We find that any bipartite marginal states of the W SLOCC class are entangled, and that of the GHZ SLOCC class has eight different cases which are depend on the ASCs.
We construct an important missing piece in the entanglement theory of pure three-qubit states, which is a polynomial measure of W-entanglement. This works in parallel to the three-tangle, which is a polynomial measure of GHZ-entanglement, and to the bipartite concurrence, which is a polynomial measure of bipartite entanglement. We also show that these entanglement measures are ordered, the bipartite measure is larger than the W measure, which is larger than the GHZ measure. It is meaningful then to consider these three types of three-qubit entanglement, which are also ordered, bipartite is weaker than W, which is weaker than GHZ, in parallel to the order of the three kinds of equivalence classes of entangled three-qubit states.
We study entanglement properties of generic three-qubit pure states. First, we obtain the distributions of both the coefficients and the only phase in the five-term decomposition of Acín et al. for an ensemble of random pure states generated by the Haar measure on U ( 8 ) . Furthermore, we analyze the probability distributions of two sets of polynomial invariants. One of these sets allows us to classify three-qubit pure states into four classes. Entanglement in each class is characterized using the minimal Rényi-Ingarden-Urbanik entropy. Besides, the fidelity of a three-qubit random state with the closest state in each entanglement class is investigated. We also present a characterization of these classes in terms of the corresponding entanglement polytope. The entanglement classes related to stochastic local operations and classical communication (SLOCC) are analyzed as well from this geometric perspective. The numerical findings suggest some conjectures relating some of those invariants with entanglement properties to be ground in future analytical work.