Detection of multipartite entanglement in the vicinity of Dicke states with many excitations
Géza Tóth
Abstract
We present methods for detecting entanglement around N-qubit Dicke states with N/2 excitations. In the first part of the paper we show that for large N these states have the smallest overlap possible with states without multi-partite entanglement. Thus these states are particulary well suited for experiments aimed to create and detect genuine multi-partite entanglement. We present fidelity-based entanglement witness operators for detecting multipartite entanglement around these states. In the second part of the paper we consider entanglement criteria, somewhat similar to spin squeezing, based on the moments or variances of the collective spin operators. We present both criteria detecting entanglement in general and criteria detecting only genuine multi-partite entanglement.