Certification of Genuine Multipartite Entanglement with General and Robust Device-independent Witnesses

TL;DR

This paper introduces a robust, general device-independent method for certifying and quantifying genuine multipartite entanglement in quantum states using only bipartite Bell inequalities, applicable to various realistic states.

Contribution

The authors develop a new DI approach that works for arbitrary finite-dimensional multipartite states, overcoming limitations of previous methods requiring full state knowledge.

Findings

Successfully certifies genuine multipartite entanglement in various states

Detects entanglement in weakly-entangled GHZ states

Applicable to realistic, noisy quantum states

Abstract

Genuine multipartite entanglement represents the strongest type of entanglement, which is an essential resource for quantum information processing. Standard methods to detect genuine multipartite entanglement, e.g., entanglement witnesses, state tomography, or quantum state verification, require full knowledge of the Hilbert space dimension and precise calibration of measurement devices, which are usually difficult to acquire in an experiment. The most radical way to overcome these problems is to detect entanglement solely based on the Bell-like correlations of measurement outcomes collected in the experiment, namely, device-independently (DI). However, it is difficult to certify genuine entanglement of practical multipartite states in this way, and even more difficult to quantify it, due to the difficulty to identify optimal multipartite Bell inequalities and protocols tolerant to state impurity. In this work, we explore a general and robust DI method which can be applied to various realistic multipartite quantum state in arbitrary finite dimension, while merely relying on bipartite Bell inequalities. Our method allows us both to certify the presence of genuine multipartite entanglement and to quantify it. Several important classes of entangled states are tested with this method, leading to the detection of genuinely entangled states. We also certify genuine multipartite entanglement in weakly-entangled GHZ states, thus showing that the method applies equally well to less standard states.