We report the deterministic creation of maximally entangled three-qubit states-specifically the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state and the W state-with a trapped-ion quantum computer. We read out one of the qubits selectively and show how GHZ and W states are affected by this local measurement. Additionally, we demonstrate conditional operations controlled by the results from reading out one qubit. Tripartite entanglement is deterministically transformed into bipartite entanglement by local operations only. These operations are the measurement of one qubit of a GHZ state in a rotated basis and, conditioned on this measurement result, the application of single-qubit rotations.
We report the deterministic creation of maximally entangled three-qubit states-specifically the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state and the W state-with a trapped-ion quantum computer. We read out one of the qubits selectively and show how GHZ and W states are affected by this local measurement. Additionally, we demonstrate conditional operations controlled by the results from reading out one qubit. Tripartite entanglement is deterministically transformed into bipartite entanglement by local operations only. These operations are the measurement of one qubit of a GHZ state in a rotated basis and, conditioned on this measurement result, the application of single-qubit rotations.
The states of three-qubit systems split into two inequivalent types of genuine tripartite entanglement, namely, the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) type and the W type. A state belonging to one of these classes can be stochastically transformed only into a state within the same class by local operations and classical communications. We provide local quantum operations, consisting of the most general two-outcome measurement operators, for the deterministic transformations of three-qubit pure states in which the initial and the target states are in the same class. We explore these transformations, originally having standard GHZ and standard W states, under the local measurement operations carried out by a single party and p (p=2,3) parties (successively). We find a notable result that the standard GHZ state cannot be deterministically transformed to a GHZ-type state in which all its bipartite entanglements are nonzero, i.e., a transformation can be achieved with unit probability when the target state has at least one vanishing bipartite concurrence.
Going beyond the entanglement of microscopic objects (such as photons, spins, and ions), here we propose an efficient approach to produce and control the quantum entanglement of three macroscopic coupled superconducting qubits. By conditionally rotating, one by one, selected Josephson-charge qubits, we show that their Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) entangled states can be deterministically generated. The existence of GHZ correlations between these qubits could be experimentally demonstrated by effective single-qubit operations followed by high-fidelity single-shot readouts. The possibility of using the prepared GHZ correlations to test the macroscopic conflict between the noncommutativity of quantum mechanics and the commutativity of classical physics is also discussed.
The hierarchy of nonlocality and entanglement in multipartite systems is one of the fundamental problems in quantum physics. We study this topic in three-qubit systems considering the entanglement classification of stochastic local operations and classical communication (SLOCC). The equivalence under SLOCC divides three-qubit states into separable, biseparable, W, and Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) classes. The W and GHZ are two subclasses of genuine tripartite entanglement. We adopt the family of GHZ-symmetric states as a research subject, which share the symmetries of the GHZ state and have a complete characterization of SLOCC classes. In the biseparable region (with bipartite entanglement), there exist GHZ-symmetric states that are found to be fully local. In addition, there are bilocal states in both the W and GHZ classes. That is, neither of the subclasses of genuine tripartite entanglement can ensure genuinely tripartite nonlocality.
We introduce a real-valued functional I(n1,n2) of four three-qubit correlations that turns the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) algebraic paradox into a quantitative witness of genuine tripartite entanglement. For every three-qubit state ρ and every pair of directions, ∣I(n1,n2;ρ)∣≤2, with equality if and only if n1⊥n2 and ρ is locally unitarily equivalent to the GHZ state. On the five-parameter Acín family, I(x^,y^) depends only on λ0λ4 and is maximised by the GHZ state; for the W state I(x^,y^)=0 and max∣IW∣=35/27. Maximising over independent local orthonormal frames yields a local-unitary invariant measure EGHZ∈[0,1], computable from four three-body Pauli correlators, that equals one exactly on the GHZ orbit and takes the values 35/54 on the W state and 1/2 on product states. We show that EGHZ is not convex: an equal mixture of three biseparable states has EGHZ=14/27, larger than the average 1/2 of its components. We also relate EGHZ to GHZ fidelity witnesses, discuss its behaviour under local operations and classical communication, and outline a generalisation to three qudits via Heisenberg-Weyl operators.
Invertible local transformations of a multipartite system are used to define equivalence classes in the set of entangled states. This classification concerns the entanglement properties of a single copy of the state. Accordingly, we say that two states have the same kind of entanglement if both of them can be obtained from the other by means of local operations and classical communication (LOCC) with nonzero probability. When applied to pure states of a three-qubit system, this approach reveals the existence of two inequivalent kinds of genuine tripartite entanglement, for which the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state and a W state appear as remarkable representatives. In particular, we show that the W state retains maximally bipartite entanglement when any one of the three qubits is traced out. We generalize our results both to the case of higher-dimensional subsystems and also to more than three subsystems, for all of which we show that, typically, two randomly chosen pure states cannot be converted into each other by means of LOCC, not even with a small probability of success.
We investigate the problem of quantum remote implementation of a single-qubit rotation operation using three-qubit entangled state. Firstly, we utilize the entanglement property of maximally entangled Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) state to design a theoretical scheme for implementing the operation remotely with unit fidelity and unit probability. Then, we put forward two schemes for conclusive implementing the non-local single-qubit rotation with unit fidelity by employing a partially entangled pure GHZ state as quantum channel. The features of these schemes are that a third side is included, who may participate the process of quantum remote implementation as a supervisor. Furthermore, when the quantum channel is partially entangled, the third side can rectify the state distorted by imperfect quantum channel. In addition to the GHZ class state, the W class state can also be used to remotely implement the same operation probabilistically. The probability of successful implementation using the W class state is always less than that using the GHZ class state.