arXiv:quant-ph/0405164 · Physical Review A

Generation and detection of bound entanglement

P. Hyllus, Carolina Alves, Dagmar Bruß, Chiara Macchiavello

Published Sep 21, 2004• 34 citations

Abstract

We propose a method for the experimental generation of two different families of bound entangled states of three qubits. Our method is based on the explicit construction of a quantum network that produces a purification of the desired state. We also suggest a route for the experimental detection of bound entanglement, by employing a witness operator plus a test of the positivity of the partial transposes.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.70.032316

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