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Faithful geometric measures for genuine tripartite entanglement

Quantum Physics 2024-07-10 v2

Abstract

We present a faithful geometric picture for genuine tripartite entanglement of discrete, continuous, and hybrid quantum systems. We first find that the triangle relation EijkαEjikα+Ekijα\mathcal{E}^\alpha_{i|jk}\leq \mathcal{E}^\alpha_{j|ik}+\mathcal{E}^\alpha_{k|ij} holds for all subadditive bipartite entanglement measure E\mathcal{E}, all permutations under parties i,j,ki, j, k, all α[0,1]\alpha \in [0, 1], and all pure tripartite states. It provides a geometric interpretation that bipartition entanglement, measured by Eα\mathcal{E}^\alpha, corresponds to the side of a triangle, of which the area with α(0,1)\alpha \in (0, 1) is nonzero if and only if the underlying state is genuinely entangled. Then, we rigorously prove the non-obtuse triangle area with 0<α1/20<\alpha\leq 1/2 is a measure for genuine tripartite entanglement. Useful lower and upper bounds for these measures are obtained, and generalizations of our results are also presented. Finally, it is significantly strengthened for qubits that, given a set of subadditive and non-additive measures, some state is always found to violate the triangle relation for any α>1\alpha>1, and the triangle area is not a measure for any α>1/2\alpha>1/2. Hence, our results are expected to aid significant progress in studying both discrete and continuous multipartite entanglement.

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@article{arxiv.2312.17496,
  title  = {Faithful geometric measures for genuine tripartite entanglement},
  author = {Xiaozhen Ge and Lijun Liu and Yong Wang and Yu Xiang and Guofeng Zhang and Li Li and Shuming Cheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.17496},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Accepted as a Letter at Phys. Rev. A. Comments are welcome