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Quantifying Tripartite Spatial and Energy-Time Entanglement in Nonlinear Optics

Quantum Physics 2022-06-28 v2 Optics

Abstract

In this work, we provide a means to quantify genuine tripartite entanglement in arbitrary (pure and mixed) continuous-variable states as measured by the Tripartite Entanglement of formation -- a resource-based measure quantifying genuine multi-partite entanglement in units of elementary Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states called gebits. Furthermore, we predict its effectiveness in quantifying the tripartite spatial and energy-time entanglement in photon triplets generated in cascaded spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), and find that ordinary nonlinear optics can be a substantial resource of tripartite entanglement.

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@article{arxiv.2110.06781,
  title  = {Quantifying Tripartite Spatial and Energy-Time Entanglement in Nonlinear Optics},
  author = {James Schneeloch and Richard J. Birrittella and Christopher C. Tison and Gregory A. Howland and Michael L. Fanto and Paul M. Alsing},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.06781},
  year   = {2022}
}

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14 pages including appendices, 3 figures

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