Detection of genuine multipartite entanglement based on local sum uncertainty relations
Abstract
Genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) offers more significant advantages in quantum information compared with entanglement. We propose a sufficient criterion for the detection of GME based on local sum uncertainty relations for chosen observables of subsystems. We apply the criterion to detect the GME properties of noisy -partite W state when and , and find that the criterion can detect more noisy W states when ranges from 4 to 6. Moreover, the criterion is also used to detect the genuine entanglement of -qutrit state. The result is stronger than that based on GME concurrence and fisher information.
I INTRODUCTION
Quantum entanglement MAN ; RPMK ; FMA ; KSS is a remarkable resource in the theory of quantum information, which is one of the most distinctive features of quantum theory as compared to classical theory. Entangled states play the essential roles in quantum cryptography AKE , teleportation chbg and dense coding chbs . Genuine multipartite entanglement has more significant advantages compared with entanglement. It is beneficial in various quantum communication protocols, such as secret sharing nggr , extreme spin squeezing assk , quantum computing using cluster states rrhj , high sensitivity in general metrology tasks phwl , and multiparty quantum network mhvb ; vsng . To certify GME, Bell-like inequalities jdbn , various entanglement witness MF1 ; JI2 ; JY3 ; JS4 ; CKM5 ; CEJ6 , and generalized concurrence for multi genuine entanglement ZH11 ; YT12 ; TF13 ; LM14 ; LM15 were derived. Some entanglement criteria for bipartite entangled state and multipartite non fully separable states have been also proposed HPBO ; JIV ; CYSG . In particular, the entanglement criteria based on local sum uncertainty relations (LUR) have been proposed for bipartite systems CJZ and tripartite systems YAMA . Although non-fully separable states contain genuinely entangled states, the criterion of GME based on LUR has not been studied.
In this paper, we study the criterion of GME based on LUR and obtain the sufficient conditions in Theorems 3 and 5. First, for any quantum states, we show that we can always find the lower bound of LUR. Second, we apply the sum of local observables to the multipartite biseparable state, and obtain the lower bound of LUR by using the method in CJZ ; YAMA . The converse negative process is the criterion of detecting GME. When we choose spin observables, the criterion is better than that in RYMD . Third, we use the criterion detect -qutrit state and noisy W state for -qubit system () and find that the criterion is strong than the exiting ones LM14 ; QIP2020 . Moreover, it can detect more noisy W states when changes from 4 to 6, which is consistent with the fully-separability of noisy W states xyc2020 .
In the rest of this paper, we will introduce the criterion of bipartite separability and tripartite fully separability based on LUR in Sec. II. We investigate the GME criterion based on LUR in Sec. III, that is, Theorem 3 and Theorem 5. In Sec. IV, we apply the criterion to noisy W state and -qutrit state to verify its effectiveness. We conclude in Sec. V.
II PRELIMINARIES
A multipartite state that is not the convex sum of bipartite product states is said to be genuine multipartite entangled OGGT . Take the tripartite system as an example. Let , , denote dimensional Hilbert spaces of system , , , respectively. A tripartite state is biseparable if it can be expressed
(1) |
where and Here is an arbitrary density operator for the subsystems and . Otherwise, is called genuinely tripartite entangled. The definition can be extended to genuine multipartite entangled states. Next, we introduce the criterion of bipartite separability and tripartite fully separability based on local sum uncertainty relations. They can also be detected for the criterion of GME.
Consider the set of local observables and for systems and respectively. The sum uncertainty relations for arbitrary state are as follows
(2) |
where the non-negative constants and are independent of and with . An entanglement criterion based on local sum uncertainty relation was introduced for bipartite system .
Lemma 1
CJZ For bipartite separable state , the following inequality holds,
(3) | |||||
where . The violation of inequality implies entanglement of .
For tripartite system, we consider the set of local observables , and for subsystem , and , respectively. Suppose that the sum uncertainty relations for these observables have non-negative constants bounds , and independent of states, i. e.
(4) |
Recently, the criterion (3) has been extended to a non-fully separability criterion for the tripartite system based on local sum uncertainty relations as follows.
Lemma 2
YAMA For any tripartite fully separable state ,
(5) |
the reduced states , and are also separable. Therefore, must satisfy the inequality (3) and also similar statements must hold for and . That is,
(6) |
where and have similar definitions with . So the following inequalities must hold simultaneously,
(7) |
with
where
(8) |
and
and and have similar definitions. Violation of any inequality in Eqs. (6) and (7) implies non fully separability of .
The method of Lemma 1 and 2 can be used to find the criterion of genuine entanglement in Theorem 3. It may be related to the lower bounds of quantum uncertainty relations for single system and bipartite system. In Eqs. (2) and (4), the lower bound of uncertainty relations , and are also independent of states. Moreover, some lower bound related to states have also been studied. We know some well-known formula of uncertainty relation for two observables MLPA ,
where , , and the sign on the right hand side of the inequality takes while is positive (negative). Let us mark the right side of the inequality as . Furthermore, some multiple observables uncertainty relations were proposed BCNP ; BCSM ; QCSL . We consider the local observables and for systems and respectively, the multi-observables sum uncertainty relations are as follows
(9) |
III MAIN RESULTS
In this section, we investigate the genuine tripartite and multipartite entanglement based on local sum uncertainty relations. We apply the observables in Eq. (8) to the tripartite biseparable state, and obtain the lower bound of inequality by using Eqs. (9) and (10). Thus, we construct a sufficient condition for genuine tripartite entanglement in Theorem 3. Further, we extend this criterion to multipartite system in Theorem 5.
III.1 CRITERIA FOR GENUINE TRIPARTITE ENTANGLEMENT
Theorem 3
Proof.
For any mixture of type , the variance satisfies HFHS
(12) |
Hence for the biseparable state,
(13) |
We can always choose as the lower bound the smallest value of in (III.1). So the second inequality can be obtained using the fact that .
Then we consider that corresponds to the bipartition ,
(14) |
where . The inequality is due to Lemma 1 in CJZ .
Combining Eq. (III.1) and Eq. (III.1), we can obtain Eq. (11). In Eq. (11), the first term in the bracket , namely, is implied by the biseparable state . Similarly, the second term is implied by the biseparable state , and the third term is implied by the biseparable state . Violation of the inequality (11) is sufficient to confirm genuine tripartite entanglement of . ∎
When we choose spin observables as the observables , , and , the criteria in Theorem 3 require only the statistics of a set of observables. In this sense, it is state independent, which is similar to RYMD . In order to compare Theorem 3 with criterion 1 in RYMD , we consider the sum of and where
(15) |
and and are real numbers. Here , , are the spin operators for subsystem , satisfying . Then in Eq. (11) is equal to when , , , , , and . This leads us to the following criterion,
Corollary 4
Violation of the inequality
(16) | |||||
is sufficient to confirm genuine tripartite entanglement. Here
and can be similarly defined.
III.2 CRITERIA FOR GENUINE MULTIPARTITE ENTANGLEMENT
Now we extend the method in previous section used to derive criteria for genuine tripartite entanglement to -partite system. One can show that the number of possible bipartition is . In order to investigate the criteria of genuine -partite entanglement, we should consider every bipartition. Here we generalize the criterion in Eq. (11) and Eq. (16) for -partite system. We denote every bipartition by , where and are the sets of two part in a specific bipartition.
Theorem 5
If a -partite quantum state is biseparable, then
(17) |
where is the set of the quantity defined for each partition , and are the states in set and respectively. Violation of the inequality (17) is sufficient to confirm genuine -partite entanglement. The proof of the inequality follows from the proof in Eq. (11).
When the observables in Eq. (17) are spin observables, the following criterion can be obtained.
Corollary 6
Violation of the inequality
(18) |
implies genuine -partite entanglement. Where is the set of defined for each partition . When every , the inequality is reduced to criterion 6 in RYMD .
For , there will be bipartition. They are , , , , , , . Using them we obtain the criterion for genuine four-partite entanglement.
Corollary 7
If a four-partite quantum state is biseparable, then
(19) | |||||
where
, , , , , and can be similarly defined.
IV EXAMPLE
In this section, we illustrate the utility of the criteria by a few examples.
Example 8
Consider the -qubit W state mixed with the white noise,
where , and is the identity matrix.
Set , , and . The criterion in Theorem 3 is computed to be , which means the left side of (11) minus the right of that, as shown in FIG 1. Comparing with the criterion in LM14 and QIP2020 , Theorem 3 can detect more genuinely tripartite entangled states.

Now we consider genuine entanglement of for three cases.
- 1.
-
2.
when , we set , , and . By calculation, we can obtain .
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3.
When , we set , , and . By calculation, we can obtain .
We describe the three cases in FIG 2. The same method can be used when by choosing appropriate observables, but the calculation will become more and more complex.


It is worth mentioning that xyc2020 the noisy state is fully separable if
(22) |
The condition is necessary and sufficient when . This is similar to the genuine entanglement criterion in Theorems 3 and 5, that is, (22) can detect more states with the increase of . We describe these results in FIG 3.
This criterion can not only detect the GME of qubit states, but also detect that of qurit states. Here is an example of the 3-qutrit state.
Example 9
Set , , and . Here , , are spin operators. The criterion in Theorem 3 is computed to be , which means the left side of (11) minus the right of that, as shown in FIG 4. The criterion can detect GME better than the criterion in LM14 .

V CONCLUSION
The detection of GME is a basic and important object in quantum theory. In view of the bipartite entanglement and tripartite non-fully separable criteria based on LUR, we have studied the GME based on LUR. We have obtained an effective criterion to detecting the GME for tripartite system, which be extended to multipartite system. Comparing with some existing criteria, the criterion can detect more genuinely entangled states by theoretical analysis and numerical examples. Also, we found the relation of and genuinely entanglement for - qubit noisy W state. The method used in this paper can also be generalized to arbitrary multipartite qudit systems. It would be also worthwhile to investigate the -separability of multipartite systems.
Acknowledgments Authors were supported by the NNSF of China (Grant No. 11871089), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant Nos. KG12080401 and ZG216S1902).
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