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Hierarchy of Genuine Tripartite Non-Gaussian Entanglement

Da Zhang, David Barral, Yanpeng Zhang, Min Xiao, Kamel Bencheikh

Published Jan 1, 2023• 0 citations
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Abstract

Triple-photon states generated by three-mode spontaneous parametric down-conversion are the paradigm of unconditional non-Gaussian states, essential assets for quantum advantage. How to fully characterize their non-Gaussian entanglement remains however elusive. We propose here a hierarchy of sufficient and necessary conditions for separability of the broad family of spontaneously-generated three-mode non-Gaussian states. We further derive state-of-the-art conditions for genuine tripartite non-Gaussian entanglement, the strongest class of entanglement. We apply our criteria to triple-photon states revealing that they are fully inseparable and genuinely entangled in moments of order 3n. Our results establish a systematic framework for characterizing the entanglement of triple-photon states and thus fostering their application in quantum information protocols.

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Triple-photon states generated by three-mode spontaneous parametric down-conversion are the paradigm of unconditional non-Gaussian states, essential assets for quantum advantage. How to fully characterize their non-Gaussian entanglement remains however elusive. We propose here a set of sufficient and necessary conditions for separability of the broad family of spontaneously generated three-mode non-Gaussian states. We further derive state-of-the-art conditions for genuine tripartite non-Gaussian entanglement, the strongest class of entanglement. We apply our criteria to triple-photon states revealing that they are fully inseparable and genuinely entangled in moments of order 3n. Our results establish a systematic framework for characterizing the entanglement of triple-photon states and thus fostering their application in quantum information protocols.
We show that the states generated by a three-mode spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) interaction Hamiltonian possess tripartite entanglement of a different nature to other paradigmatic three-mode entangled states generated by the combination of two-mode SPDC interactions. While two-mode SPDC generates Gaussian states whose entanglement can be characterized by standard criteria based on two-mode quantum correlations, these criteria fail to capture the entanglement generated by three-mode SPDC. We use criteria built from three-mode correlation functions to show that the class of states recently generated in a superconducting-circuit implementation of three-mode SPDC ideally have tripartite entanglement, contrary to recent claims in the literature. These criteria are suitable for triple SPDC but we show that they fail to detect tripartite entanglement in other states which are known to possess it, which illustrates the existence of two fundamentally different notions of tripartite entanglement in three-mode continuous-variable systems.
We theoretically demonstrate through numerical methods that the triple-photon state generated by three-photon spontaneous parametric down-conversion is a non-Gaussian Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state, showing super-Gaussian statistics. Interestingly, the degree of entanglement between the modes of the triple-photon state is stronger than that corresponding to the two-mode squeezed vacuum state produced by a quadratic Hamiltonian with the same parameters. Furthermore, we propose a model to prepare two-mode sub-Gaussian entangled states with a tunable negative Wigner function based on quadrature projection measurements. We find that these Gaussian projection measurements with outcomes $X\ensuremath{\ge}1$ not only improve the entanglement of the residual two modes but also introduce a Gaussian component, resulting in the coexistence of Gaussian and non-Gaussian entanglement.
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We lay down a general scheme to quantify the amount of genuine tripartite entanglement present in the spatial and energy-time degrees of freedom of entangled photon triplets using a resource-based measure known as the tripartite entanglement of formation. Quantifying genuine tripartite entanglement relative to a number of maximally entangled three-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states called gebits, the tripartite entanglement of formation serves as a basis of comparison between different tripartite entangled states of differing dimension. Demonstrating genuine tripartite entanglement is doubly challenging because it is not enough to show that each party is inseparable from the other two (which is sufficient only for pure states). Instead, one must rule out all mixtures of all combinations of biseparable states from describing the tripartite state. To meet this challenge, we use entropic measures of the statistics of tripartite systems to simultaneously bound the correlations each party has with the other two, and in so doing place a lower limit to the tripartite entanglement of formation. Even though our measure never over-estimates the entanglement present, we estimate the effectiveness of our technique by determining the exact tripartite entanglement of a triple-gaussian triphoton wavefunction with the same correlations as seen in photon triplets generated in third-order spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). Between these two efforts, we show that a substantial amount of tripartite entanglement exists in both the spatial and energy-time degrees of freedom of these systems, and propose an experiment that can measure them.
In this work we study the production and swapping of non-Gaussian multipartite entanglement in a setup containing a parametric amplifier which generates three photons in different modes coupled to three qubits. We prove that the entanglement generated in this setup is of non-Gaussian nature. We introduce witnesses of genuine tripartite non-Gaussian entanglement, valid for both mode and qubit entanglement. Moreover, those witnesses show that the entanglement generated among the photons can be swapped to the qubits, and indeed the qubits display non-Gaussian genuine tripartite entanglement over a wider parameter regime, suggesting that our setup could be a useful tool to extract entanglement generated in higher-order parametric amplification for quantum metrology or quantum computing applications.