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arXiv:2608.16028

Transport-Noise Witnesses of Electronic Multipartite Entanglement

Shuhan Ding, Prakash Sharma, Zecheng Shen, Jiang-Xiazi Lin, Sergei Urazhdin, Yao Wang

cond-mat.str-elquant-phSubmitted Aug 17, 2026• Announced Aug 18, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

Entanglement among particles is a defining feature of strongly correlated quantum materials, distinguishing them from conventional metals and semiconductors. The ability to certify intrinsic entanglement among interacting electrons in solid-state materials is important not only for classifying quantum states of matter, but also for developing material-based quantum technologies. Here, we introduce a transport-based protocol for witnessing multipartite entangled electronic states, based on the equilibrium noise spectrum as an experimentally accessible observable. The appropriately integrated, symmetrized, and projected current noise obeys an upper bound that can be derived from microscopic model parameters and is invariant with respect to the choice of electronic basis. We benchmark this framework in several paradigmatic systems, including twisted bilayer graphene, twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$, and Hubbard models, certifying entanglement in the fractional Chern insulating state. The method extends recently developed scattering-based entanglement witnesses to ultralow-temperature materials, where conventional spectroscopic probes are inaccessible but candidate entangled states are expected to arise.

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