Measure of multipartite entanglement with computable lower bounds

Yan Hong, Ting Gao, Fengli Yan

Published 2012-06-28, updated 2013-01-15Version 3

In this paper, we present a measure of multipartite entanglement ($k$-nonseparable), $k$-ME concurrence $C_{k-\mathrm{ME}}(\rho)$ that unambiguously detects all $k$-nonseparable states in arbitrary dimensions, where the special case, 2-ME concurrence $C_{2-\mathrm{ME}}(\rho)$, is a measure of genuine multipartite entanglement. The new measure $k$-ME concurrence satisfies important characteristics of an entanglement measure including entanglement monotone, vanishing on $k$-separable states, convexity, subadditivity and strictly greater than zero for all $k$-nonseparable states. Two powerful lower bounds on this measure are given. These lower bounds are experimentally implementable without quantum state tomography and are easily computable as no optimization or eigenvalue evaluation is needed. We illustrate detailed examples in which the given bounds perform better than other known detection criteria.