Chinese Physics Letters
A Peculiar Tripartite Entangled State
黄燕霞, 於亚飞, 詹明生
Abstract
We present a scheme to prepare two-atom Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen states and three-atom entangled states via cavity quantum electrodynamics, and it can be realized experimentally. Importantly, we find that in the set of tripartite entangled states prepared by our scheme there is a peculiar tripartite entangled state except the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state. The peculiar tripartite entangled states have double feature of the GHZ state (i.e. T123 >0) and W state (i.e. the remaining reduce density matrices pij retain entanglement according to the positive partial transformation (PPT) criterion) simultaneously. However, its entanglement properties are not completely identical either to the GHZ state or to the W state. It is interesting that for peculiar entanglement properties, the remaining reduced density matrices pij can retain entanglement or disentanglement independently, which can be chosen freely according to our need.