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Probing the Hierarchy of Genuine Multipartite Entanglement with Generalized Latent Entropy

High Energy Physics - Theory 2026-05-29 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We introduce generalization of the recently proposed \textit{Latent Entropy} (L-entropy) \cite{Basak:2024uwc} as a refined measure of genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) in pure states of nn-party quantum systems. Generalized L-entropy provides a natural ordering among kk-uniform states, maximising for absolutely maximally entangled states (AME), effectively capturing the hierarchical structure of multipartite entanglement. We analyze the behavior of this measure for nn-party Haar-random states and demonstrate that, in the large local-dimension limit, the maximal L-entropy saturates its upper bound for odd nn, while for even nn it approaches the bound asymptotically. Furthermore, we apply this framework to examine multipartite entanglement properties of quantum states in several variants of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) model, including SYK4_4, SYK2_2, mass-deformed SYK, sparse SYK, and N=2\mathcal{N}=2 supersymmetric SYK model. The results demonstrate that the generalized L-entropy serves as a sensitive probe of multipartite entanglement, revealing how deformations influence quantum entanglement structure in such strongly interacting systems.

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@article{arxiv.2510.19922,
  title  = {Probing the Hierarchy of Genuine Multipartite Entanglement with Generalized Latent Entropy},
  author = {Byoungjoon Ahn and Jaydeep Kumar Basak and Keun-Young Kim and Gwon Bin Koo and Vinay Malvimat and Junggi Yoon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.19922},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

32 pages, 19 figures, Refined arguments