Statistically significant tests of multiparticle quantum correlations based on randomized measurements

Abstract

We consider statistical methods based on finite samples of locally randomized measurements in order to certify different degrees of multiparticle entanglement in intermediate-scale quantum systems. We first introduce hierarchies of multi-qubit criteria, satisfied by states which are separable with respect to partitions of different size, involving only second moments of the underlying probability distribution. Then, we analyze in detail the statistical error of the estimation in experiments and present several approaches for estimating the statistical significance based on large deviation bounds. The latter allows us to characterize the measurement resources required for the certification of multiparticle correlations, as well as to analyze given experimental data in detail.