Simple Entanglement Measure for Multipartite Pure States

A simple entanglement measure for multipartite pure states is formulated based on the partial entropy of a series of reduced density matrices. Use of the proposed new measure to distinguish disentangled, partially entangled, and maximally entangled multipartite pure states is illustrated.     

Separability Criterion for Arbitrary Multipartite Pure State Based on the Rank of Reduced Density Matrix

Nowadays, there are plenty of separability criteria which are used to detect entanglement. Many of them are limited to apply for some cases. In this paper, we propose a separability criterion for arbitrary multipartite pure state which is based on the rank of reduced density matrix. It is proved that the rank of reduced density matrices of a multipartite state is closely related to entanglement. In fact it can be used to characterize entanglement. Our separability criterion is a necessary and sufficient condition for detecting entanglement. Furthermore, it is able to help us find the completely separable form of a multipartite pure state according to some explicit examples. Finally it demonstrates that our method are more suitable for some specific case. Our separability criterion are simple to understand and it is operational.     

Quantifying entanglement in terms of an operational way

We establish entanglement monotones in terms of an operational approach,which is closely connected with the state conversion from pure states to the objective state by the local operations and classical communications.It is shown that any good entanglement quantifier defined on pure states can induce an entanglement monotone for all density matrices.Particularly,we show that our entanglement monotone is the maximal one among all those having the same form for pure states.In some special cases,our proposed entanglement monotones turn to be equivalent to the convex roof construction,which hence gain an operational meaning.Some examples are given to demonstrate different cases.     

Entropy product measure for multipartite pure states

An entanglement measure for multipartite pure states is formulated using the product of the von Neumann entropy of the reduced density matrices of the constituents. Based on this new measure, all possible ways of the maximal entanglement of the triqubit pure states are studied in detail and all types of the maximal entanglement have been compared with the result of ‘the average entropy’. The new measure can be used to calculate the degree of entanglement, and an improvement is given in the area near the zero entropy.     

Schmidt Number Entanglement Measure for Multipartite k-nonseparable States

In this paper, an entanglement measure for multipartite quantum states with respect to k-partition was introduced, which is called Schmidt number entanglement measure for multipartite k-nonseparable states, it is simply denoted by k-ME SN. We show that this measure is well-defined, i.e., it satisfies some basic properties as an entanglement measure. In addition, we give a super bound and lower bound of k-ME SN for multipartite pure states according to the definition of joint k-Schmidt number with respect to k-partition. Furthermore, we give some examples to show that Schmidt number entanglement measure can quantify the strength of entanglement for multipartite quantum states.

     

两态和三态多体纯态的度量和分类

基于多体纯态纠缠的度量方法，研究了两态两体和三体以及三态两体纯态纠缠的分类和度量.结果表明，在随机局域操作与经典通信(SLOCC)等价的意义下，纯态的纠缠方式可用所定义纠缠度的不同极大值来表征.通过仔细的计算和分析发现，两态三体和三态两体纯态各有三种SLOCC不等价的基本纠缠方式.最后将三态两体纯态纠缠度的计算与新近提出的熵积纠缠度方案进行了比较，并进行了讨论. 关键词： 纯态纠缠 极值纠缠 随机局域操作和经典通信     

Tractable Quantification of Entanglement for Multipartite Pure States

We present kth-order entanglement measure and global kth-order entanglement measure for multipartite pure states, and extend Bennett＇s measure of partial entropy for bipartite pure states to a multipaxtite case. These measures are computable and can effectively classify and quantify the entanglement of multipartite pure states.     

Uniqueness of the entanglement measure for bipartite pure states and thermodynamics

We apply the axiomatic approach to thermodynamics presented by Giles to derive a unique measure of entanglement for bipartite pure states. This implies that local manipulations of entanglement in quantum information theory and adiabatic transformations of states in thermodynamics have the same underlying mathematical structure. We discuss possible extensions of our results to mixed and multipartite states.     

Rescaling multipartite entanglement measures for mixed states

A relevant problem regarding entanglement measures is the following: Given an arbitrary mixed state, how does a measure for multipartite entanglement change if general local operations are applied to the state? This question is nontrivial as the normalization of the states has to be taken into account. Here we answer it for pure-state entanglement measures which are invariant under determinant-one local operations and homogeneous in the state coefficients, and their convex-roof extension which quantifies mixed-state entanglement. Our analysis allows us to enlarge the set of mixed states for which these important measures can be calculated exactly. In particular, our results hint at a distinguished role of entanglement measures which have homogeneous degree 2 in the state coefficients.     

Completely mixed state is a critical point for three-qubit entanglement

Pure three-qubit states have five algebraically independent and one algebraically dependent polynomial invariants under local unitary transformations and an arbitrary entanglement measure is a function of these six invariants. It is shown that if the reduced density operator of a some qubit is a multiple of the unit operator, than the geometric entanglement measure of the pure three-qubit state is absolutely independent of the polynomial invariants and is a constant for such tripartite states. Hence a one-particle completely mixed state is a critical point for the geometric measure of entanglement.     

多粒子纠缠的保护方案

量子纠缠是量子信息的重要物理资源. 然而当量子系统与环境相互作用时, 会不可避免地产生消相干导致纠缠下降, 因此保护纠缠不受环境的影响具有重要意义. 振幅衰减是一种典型的衰减机制. 如果探测环境保证没有激发从系统中流出, 即视为对系统的一种弱测量. 本文基于局域脉冲序列和弱测量, 提出了一种可以保护多粒子纠缠不受振幅衰减影响的有效物理方案, 保护的对象是在量子通信和量子计算中发挥重要作用的Cluster态和Maximal slice态.     

Measure of Entanglement for General Pure Multipartite States Based on the Plücker Coordinates

We construct a measure of entanglement for general pure multipartite states based on the Plücker coordinates of the Grassmann variety. In particular, we step by step construct measures of entanglement for general pure bipartite, three-partite, four-partite, and m-partite states.     

A Note on Normal Forms of Quantum States and Separability

We study the normal form of multipartite density matrices. It is shown that the correlation matrix (CM) separability criterion can be improved from the normal form we obtained under filtering transformations. Based on CM criterion the entanglement witness is further constructed in terms of local orthogonal observables for both bipartite and multipartite systems.     

Local indistinguishability: more nonlocality with less entanglement

We provide a first operational method for checking local indistinguishability of orthogonal states. It originates from that in Ghosh et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 5807 (2001)]], though we deal with pure states. Our method shows that probabilistic local distinguishing is possible for a complete multipartite orthogonal basis if and only if all vectors are product. Also, it leads to local indistinguishability of a set of orthogonal pure states of 3 multiply sign in circle 3, which shows that one can have more nonlocality with less entanglement, where "more nonlocality" is in the sense of "increased local indistinguishability of orthogonal states." This is, to our knowledge, the only known example where d orthogonal states in d multiply sign in circle d are locally indistinguishable.     

Local unitary classification of arbitrary dimensional multipartite pure states

We propose a practical entanglement classification scheme for general multipartite pure states in arbitrary dimensions under local unitary equivalence by exploiting the high order singular value decomposition technique and local symmetries of the states. By virtue of this scheme, the method of determining the local unitary equivalence of n-qubit states proposed by Kraus is extended to the case for arbitrary dimensional multipartite states.     

A Reversible Theory of Entanglement and its Relation to the Second Law

We consider the manipulation of multipartite entangled states in the limit of many copies under quantum operations that asymptotically cannot generate entanglement. In stark contrast to the manipulation of entanglement under local operations and classical communication, the entanglement shared by two or more parties can be reversibly interconverted in this setting. The unique entanglement measure is identified as the regularized relative entropy of entanglement, which is shown to be equal to a regularized and smoothed version of the logarithmic robustness of entanglement. Here we give a rigorous proof of this result, which is fundamentally based on a certain recent extension of quantum Stein’s Lemma, giving the best measurement strategy for discriminating several copies of an entangled state from an arbitrary sequence of non-entangled states, with an optimal distinguishability rate equal to the regularized relative entropy of entanglement. We moreover analyse the connection of our approach to axiomatic formulations of the second law of thermodynamics.     

Numerical Computation of Localizable Entanglement in Spin Chains

We present an introduction to the concept of localizable entanglement (LE) with special focus on its numerical computation. LE is an entanglement measure for multipartite systems, which leads naturally to notions like entanglement length and entanglement fluctuations. After briefly reviewing basic properties of LE we present a scheme for the numerical calculation of LE. It is based on the matrix-product state representation of many-body quantum states and the Monte Carlo method. It can be applied both to pure and mixed states. Using this method we calculate the LE of ground and thermal states for various spin systems. PACS 03.67.Mn; 03.65.Ud; 75.10.Pq; 73.43.Nq     

Universal measure of entanglement

A general framework is developed for separating classical and quantum correlations in a multipartite system. Entanglement is defined as the difference in the correlation information encoded by the state of a system and a suitably defined separable state with the same marginals. A generalization of the Schmidt decomposition is developed to implement the separation of correlations for any pure, multipartite state. The measure based on this decomposition is a generalization of the entanglement of formation to multipartite systems, provides an upper bound for the relative entropy of entanglement, and is directly computable on pure states. The example of pure three-qubit states is analyzed in detail, and a classification based on minimal, four-term decompositions is developed.     

Bounds on multipartite entangled orthogonal state discrimination using local operations and classical communication

We show that entanglement guarantees difficulty in the discrimination of orthogonal multipartite states locally. The number of pure states that can be discriminated by local operations and classical communication is bounded by the total dimension over the average entanglement. A similar, general condition is also shown for pure and mixed states. These results offer a rare operational interpretation for three abstractly defined distancelike measures of multipartite entanglement.     

On the Non-k-Separability of Dicke Class of States and N-Qudit W States

In this paper, we present the separability criteria to identify non-k-separability and genuine multipartite entanglement in mixed multipartite states using elements of density matrices. Our criteria can detect the non-k-separability of Dicke class of states, anti W states and mixtures thereof and higher dimensional W class of states. We then investigate the performance of our criteria by considering N-qubit Dicke states with arbitrary excitations added with white noise and mixture of N-qudit W state with white noise. We also study the robustness of our criteria against white noise. Further, we demonstrate that our criteria are experimentally implementable by means of local observables such as Pauli matrices and generalized Gell-Mann matrices.