Parameterized multipartite entanglement measures

TL;DR

This paper introduces parameterized multipartite entanglement measures based on $k$-nonseparability, providing rigorous proofs of their properties and demonstrating their effectiveness in detecting genuine multipartite entanglement.

Contribution

The paper proposes new $k$-nonseparable entanglement measures, including $q$-$k$-ME and $eta$-$k$-ME concurrences, with proofs of their validity and methods for lower bounds and comparison with existing measures.

Findings

The measures detect all $k$-nonseparable states in multipartite systems.

Lower bounds are derived using permutationally invariant parts.

Relations between these measures and global negativity are established.

Abstract

We investigate parameterized multipartite entanglement measures from the perspective of $k$-nonseparability in this paper. We present two types of entanglement measures in $n$-partite systems, $q$-$k$-ME concurrence $(q\geq2,~2\leq k\leq n)$ and $\alpha$-$k$-ME concurrence $(0\leq\alpha\leq\frac{1}{2},~2\leq k\leq n)$, which unambiguously detect all $k$-nonseparable states in arbitrary $n$-partite systems. Rigorous proofs show that the proposed $k$-nonseparable measures satisfy all the requirements for being an entanglement measure including the entanglement monotone, strong monotone, convexity, vanishing on all $k$-separable states, and being strictly greater than zero for all $k$-nonseparable states. In particular, the $q$-2-ME concurrence and $\alpha$-2-ME concurrence, renamed as $q$-GME concurrence and $\alpha$-GME concurrence, respectively, are two kinds of genuine entanglement measures corresponding the case where the systems are divided into bipartition $(k=2)$. The lower bounds of two classes $k$-nonseparable measures are obtained by employing the approach that takes into account the permutationally invariant part of a quantum state. And the relations between $q$-$n$-ME concurrence ($\alpha$-$n$-ME concurrence) and global negativity are established. In addition, we discuss the degree of separability and elaborate on an effective detection method with concrete examples. Moreover, we compare the $q$-GME concurrence defined by us to other genuine entanglement measures.