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Candidates for Universal Measures of Multipartite Entanglement

Quantum Physics 2018-04-19 v3

Abstract

We propose and examine several candidates for universal multipartite entanglement measures. The most promising candidate for applications needing entanglement in the full Hilbert space is the ent-concurrence, which detects all entanglement correlations while distinguishing between different types of distinctly multipartite entanglement, and simplifies to the concurrence for two-qubit mixed states. For applications where subsystems need internal entanglement, we develop the absolute ent-concurrence which detects the entanglement in the reduced states as well as the full state.

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@article{arxiv.1701.03782,
  title  = {Candidates for Universal Measures of Multipartite Entanglement},
  author = {Samuel R. Hedemann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.03782},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

16 pages, 9 figures. v2: changed "nonlocal correlations" to "entanglement correlations" since that is what was meant and is more accurate since it distinguishes them from nonlocal correlations not involving entanglement. v3: incorporated new term "full k-partite entanglement" defined as "the absence of k-separability" for compatibility with existing terminology. No results affected