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Does three-tangle properly quantify the three-party entanglement for Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-type states?

Quantum Physics 2009-09-05 v3

Abstract

Some mixed states composed of only GHZ states can be expressed in terms of only W-states. This fact implies that such states have vanishing three-tangle. One of such rank-3 states, ΠGHZ\Pi_{GHZ}, is explicitly presented in this paper. These results are used to compute analytically the three-tangle of a rank-4 mixed state σ\sigma composed of four GHZ states. This analysis with considering Bloch sphere S16S^{16} of d=4d=4 qudit system allows us to derive the hyper-polyhedron. It is shown that the states in this hyper-polyhedron have vanishing three-tangle. Computing the one-tangles for ΠGHZ\Pi_{GHZ} and σ\sigma, we prove the monogamy inequality explicitly. Making use of the fact that the three-tangle of ΠGHZ\Pi_{GHZ} is zero, we try to explain why the W-class in the whole mixed states is not of measure zero contrary to the case of pure states.

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@article{arxiv.0901.2620,
  title  = {Does three-tangle properly quantify the three-party entanglement for Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-type states?},
  author = {Eylee Jung and DaeKil Park and Jin-Woo Son},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.2620},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

10 pages, no figure V2: new calculational results are included. 11 pages: V3 accepted in the Rapid Communication of PRA, 4 pages (two column)