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Device-Independent Test for Genuine Multipartite Entanglement

Quantum Physics 2013-08-01 v1

Abstract

We investigate a-priori detection probabilities of genuine multipartite entanglement (GME). Even if one does not have knowledge about the basis in which a state is produced by a source, how a channel decoheres it or about the very working of the detectors used, we find that it is possible to detect GME with reasonably high probability in a feasible fashion. We show that by means of certain separability criteria, GME can be detected in a measurement-device-independent way. Our method provides several applications whenever e.g. state tomography is not possible or too demanding, and is a tool to investigate security issues in multi-particle quantum cryptographical protocols.

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@article{arxiv.1301.6656,
  title  = {Device-Independent Test for Genuine Multipartite Entanglement},
  author = {A. Gabriel and Ł. Rudnicki and B. C. Hiesmayr},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.6656},
  year   = {2013}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures