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Physical Review A

Tripartite nonlocality and continuous-variable entanglement in thermal states of trapped ions

Jie Li, Thomás Fogarty, Cecilia Cormick, John Goold, Thomas Busch, Mauro Paternostro

Published Aug 16, 2011• 17 citations
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Abstract

We study a system of three trapped ions in an anisotropic bidimensional trap. By focusing on the transverse modes of the ions, we show that the mutual ion-ion Coulomb interactions set entanglement of a genuine tripartite nature, to some extent persistent to the thermal nature of the vibronic modes. We tackle this issue by addressing a nonlocality test in the phase space of the ionic system and quantifying the genuine residual tripartite entanglement in the continuous variable state of the transverse modes.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.84.022321

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