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arXiv:2608.23399

Quantifying the dimensionality of multiparticle entanglement via partition rank

Sophia Denker, Ismaël Septembre, Robin Krebs, Otfried Gühne

quant-phSubmitted Aug 24, 2026• Announced Aug 25, 2026• 0 citations
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The usefulness of entanglement as a resource in quantum technologies increases for larger systems, that is, if more particles or higher-dimensional quantum systems are considered. Yet, the interplay between dimensionality and multiparticle entanglement is not well understood. Only for two-particle systems an unambiguous and coherent notion of entanglement dimensionality, based on the Schmidt decomposition, is known. We introduce a concept to characterize the entanglement dimensionality of multiparticle states based on decompositions of pure states into superpositions of states without genuine multiparticle entanglement. We provide constructive methods to characterize the resulting partition rank for pure and mixed states. This allows the identification of novel maximally correlated states as well as a discrete classification of quantum states under stochastic local operations and classical communication. From a mathematical perspective, our approach can be formulated in terms of the slice rank and partition rank of tensors and our results allow to characterize these by connecting them to a generalized injective tensor norm.

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Characterizing entanglement is central for quantum information science. Special observables which indicate entanglement, so-called entanglement witnesses, are a widely used tool for this task. The construction of these witnesses typically relies on the observation that quantum states with a high fidelity to some entangled target state are entangled, too. We introduce a general method to construct entanglement witnesses based on the Schmidt decomposition of observables. The method works for two-particle and multiparticle systems and is strictly stronger than fidelity-based constructions. The resulting witnesses can also be used to quantify entanglement and to characterize its dimensionality. Finally, we present experimentally relevant examples, where our approach improves entanglement detection significantly.
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