Published April 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Experimental generation of pseudo-bound-entanglement

  • 1. Experimentelle Physik IIIa, Technische Universitaet Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund (Germany)
  • 2. Experimentelle Physik IIIa, Technische Universitaet Dortmund, D-44221 Dortmund (Germany) and Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale and Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026 (China)
  • 3. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik III, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, D-40225 Duesseldorf (Germany)

Description

We use nuclear magnetic resonance to experimentally generate a bound-entangled (more precisely: pseudo-bound-entangled) state, i.e., a quantum state which is nondistillable but nevertheless entangled. Our quantum system consists of three qubits. We characterize the produced state via state tomography to show that the created state has a positive partial transposition with respect to any bipartite splitting, and we use a witness operator to prove its pseudoentanglement.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 040304-040304.4
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42001706
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUBITS; TOMOGRAPHY
Descriptors DEC
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; INFORMATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTUM INFORMATION; RESONANCE

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