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Modern Physics Letters B

Analyzing the entanglement properties of graph states with generalized concurrence

Ahmad Akhound, Saeed Haddadi, Mohammad Ali Chaman Motlagh

Published Mar 19, 2019• 23 citations
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Abstract

We propose a new classification for the entanglement in graph states based on generalized concurrence. The numerical results indicate that the eight different three-qubit graph states in three categories, 64 four-qubit graph states in five categories and 1024 five-qubit graph states in 10 classes. We also compare this classification with equivalence classes of these graph states under local complementation (LC) operator, and the obtained result suggests that classification by generalized concurrence is not in contradiction with the LC-rule. Furthermore, our results suggest that the generalized concurrence is a suitable measure of entanglement for multi-qubit graph states.

DOI
10.1142/s0217984919501185

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Graph states are a class of multipartite entangled quantum states that are ubiquitous in quantum information. We study equivalence relations between graph states under local unitaries (LU) to obtain distinguishing methods both in local and in networked settings. Based on the marginal structure of graph states, we introduce a family of easy-to-compute LU invariants. We show that these invariants uniquely identify the entanglement classes of every graph state up to eight qubits and discuss their reliability for larger numbers of qubits. To handle larger graphs, we generalize tools to test for local Clifford (LC) equivalence of graph states that work by condensing large graphs into smaller graphs. In turn, we show that statements on the equivalence of these smaller graphs (which are easier to compute) can be used to infer statements on the equivalence of the original, larger graphs. We analyze LU equivalence in two key settings, with and without allowing for the permutation of qubits. We identify entanglement classes, whose marginal structure does not allow us to distinguish them. As a result, we increase the bound on the number of qubits where the LU-LC conjecture holds from 8 to 10 qubits in the setting where qubit permutations are allowed.