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A Photonic System for Generating Unconditional Polarization-Entangled Photons Based on Multiple Quantum Interference
Published on: September 5, 2019
Experimental detection of multipartite entanglement using witness operators
Mohamed Bourennane1, Manfred Eibl, Christian Kurtsiefer
1Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, D-85748 Garching, Germany.
Abstract:
We present the experimental detection of genuine multipartite entanglement using entanglement witness operators. To this aim, we introduce a canonical way of constructing and decomposing witness operators so that they can be directly implemented with present technology. We apply this method to three- and four-qubit entangled states of polarized photons, giving experimental evidence that the considered states contain true multipartite entanglement.
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