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Multipartite entangling power by von Neumann entropy

Quantum Physics 2024-10-22 v1

Abstract

Quantifying the entanglement generation of a multipartite unitary operation is a key problem in quantum information processing. We introduce the definition of multipartite entangling, assisted entangling, and disentangling power, which is a natural generalization of the bipartite ones. We show that they are assumed at a specified quantum state. We analytically derive the entangling power of Schmidt-rank-two multi-qubit unitary operations by the minimal convex sum of modulo-one complex numbers. Besides we show the necessary and sufficient condition that the assisted entangling power of Schmidt-rank-two unitary operations reaches the maximum. We further investigate the widely-used multi-qubit gates, for example, the entangling and assisted entangling power of the nn-qubit Toffoli gate is one ebit. The entangling power of the three-qubit Fredkin gate is two ebits, and that of the four-qubit Fredkin gate is in two to log25\log_25 ebits.

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@article{arxiv.2410.15253,
  title  = {Multipartite entangling power by von Neumann entropy},
  author = {Xinyu Qiu and Zhiwei Song and Lin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15253},
  year   = {2024}
}
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