Optimal Fidelity Witnesses for Gravitational Entanglement

TL;DR

This paper develops an optimized fidelity witness framework for detecting gravitationally generated entanglement in optomechanical systems, enhancing measurement efficiency and robustness in fundamental quantum gravity experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a general method to optimize bipartite entanglement witnesses and applies it to gravitational entanglement detection, constructing a minimal measurement witness.

Findings

Constructed a 5-measurement witness for gravitational entanglement

The witness can detect entanglement for almost all phase configurations

Post-processing enhances the robustness of entanglement detection

Abstract

Optomechanical systems open new possibilities in fundamental research at the interface between quantum information and gravity. Recently, an ambitious experimental proposal was suggested by Bose et al. to measure the entanglement between two optomechanical systems generated by their gravitational interaction. The scheme relies on witnessing entanglement between the two systems. Here we develop a general framework to study the quality of bipartite entanglement witnesses using fidelity witnesses. We then apply this framework to the gravitational entanglement proposal, optimizing for the detection of entanglement. We construct a witness consisting of only 5 non-trivial spin measurements, which we compare with other proposed witnesses. With post-processing our witness can detect entanglement for any choice of phases in the setup, up to a set of measure zero.