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Linear optical scheme to demonstrate genuine multipartite entanglement for single-particle W states

Quantum Physics 2009-11-13 v3

Abstract

We consider the method of entanglement witness operator to verify genuine multipartite entanglement for single-particle W states involving N parties. In particular, linear optical schemes using photo detectors and beam splitters are proposed to implement two different types of witness operator in experiment. The first scheme that requires only a single measurement setting is shown to detect genuine multipartite entanglement for the overall efficiency beyond 1-1/N. On the other hand, the second scheme with N+1 measurement settings achieves success at a significantly lowered efficiency than 1-1/N.

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@article{arxiv.0803.1232,
  title  = {Linear optical scheme to demonstrate genuine multipartite entanglement for single-particle W states},
  author = {Hyunchul Nha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0803.1232},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, new scheme proposed with improved efficiency, published version

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