Three-qubit GHZ States Research Articles

Controlled Remote State Preparation of an Arbitrary Two-Qubit State by Using Two Sets of Four-Qubit GHZ States

Recently, Huang and Zhao (Int. J. Theor. Phys. 56, 678, 2017) proposed a new scheme for controlled remote state preparation of an arbitrary two-qubit state by using two sets of three-qubit GHZ states as the quantum channel. In the scheme, Alice and Bob choose four different kinds of two-qubit projective measurement bases to measure their local qubits, respectively. We demonstrate that two sets of four-qubit GHZ states can be used to realize the deterministic controlled remote state preparation of an arbitrary two-qubit state by performing only two-qubit projective measurements.

Efficient schemes for deterministic joint remote preparation of an arbitrary four-qubit W-type entangled state

We present three schemes for the joint remote state preparation (JRSP) of an arbitrary four-qubit W-type entangled state with complex coefficients via four and two three-qubit GHZ states as the quantum channel. In these schemes, two senders (or N senders) share the original state which they wish to help the receiver to remotely prepare. To complete the JRSP schemes, some novel sets of mutually orthogonal basis vectors are introduced. It is shown that, only if two senders (or N senders) collaborate with each other, and perform projective measurements under suitable measuring basis on their own qubits, the receiver can reconstruct the original state by means of some appropriate unitary operations. It is shown that, in all our schemes, the total success probability of the JRSP can reach 1. Specially, compared with the first scheme in our paper, the entanglement resource in the second scheme can be reduced. This means that the scheme is more efficient and economical.

Restoration of three-qubit entanglements and protection of tripartite quantum state sharing over noisy channels via environment-assisted measurement and reversal weak measurement

The restoration of three-qubit entanglement is investigated under the amplitude damping (AD) decoherence with environment-assisted measurement (EAM) and reversal weak measurement (RWM). The results show that there exists a critical strength of RWM dependent of the initial three-qubit entangled state under a given damping rate of the AD channel, i.e., if the selected RWM strength is higher than the critical strength, the entanglement will be reduced compared to one without RWM. Some three-qubit entangled states cannot be restored. We calculated the restorable condition of the initial entanglement and illustrated the valid area for three-qubit GHZ state and W state. Fortunately, an optimal strength of RWM corresponding to a certain damping rate of AD channels can be found within the valid area for a restorable initial state, by which a noise-infected entanglement can be restored to its maximum value. Particularly, when three qubits of W state are subjected to their respective AD channels, due to the symmetry of three qubits, the W state cannot be decohered provided the EAM is successful, and no RWM is required. This is beneficial to quantum communication over the noisy channel. Applying this protection regime to tripartite QSS and taking appropriate initial entangled state as the quantum channel, the fidelity of the shared state can be improved to the maximum 1 probabilistically. Thus, the decoherence effect of the noisy channels can be significantly suppressed or even avoided.

Experimental demonstration of a fully inseparable quantum state with nonlocalizable entanglement

Localizability of entanglement in fully inseparable states is a key ingredient of assisted quantum information protocols as well as measurement-based models of quantum computing. We investigate the existence of fully inseparable states with nonlocalizable entanglement, that is, with entanglement which cannot be localized between any pair of subsystems by any measurement on the remaining part of the system. It is shown, that the nonlocalizable entanglement occurs already in suitable mixtures of a three-qubit GHZ state and white noise. Further, we generalize this set of states to a two-parametric family of fully inseparable three-qubit states with nonlocalizable entanglement. Finally, we demonstrate experimentally the existence of nonlocalizable entanglement by preparing and characterizing one state from the family using correlated single photons and linear optical circuit.

基于三粒子非最大纠缠态的两粒子概率远程态制备

本文提出了一种基于两个三粒子部分纠缠GHZ态的任意两粒子远程态制备方案。此制备协议并不需要引入辅助粒子，总体成功概率等于纠缠通道两个最小幅值模平方之积。结合具体幺正矩阵与测量基形式，本文给出了制备协议实现步骤。当纠缠通道取为两个最大纠缠GHZ态时，总体成功概率则等于1/4。 In this paper, we presented a novel scheme for probabilistic remote preparation of arbitrary two-qubit state via two three-qubit GHZ states. Any auxiliary particles need not to be introduced in our proposal. The total successful probability is equal to the square of the norm of the minimum amplitude coefficients of the partially entangled channel. The concrete processe of this scheme is presented via some appropriate local unitary operations and measurement basis. When quantum channel is composed of two three-qubit maximally entangled states, the successful probability is equal to 1/4.

Cabello’s nonlocality for generalized three-qubit GHZ states

In this paper, we study Cabello’s nonlocality argument (CNA) for three-qubit systems configured in the generalized GHZ state. For this class of states, we show that CNA runs for almost all entangled ones, and that the maximum probability of success of CNA is 14 % (approx.), which is attained for the maximally entangled GHZ state. This maximum probability is slightly higher than that achieved for the standard Hardy’s nonlocality argument (HNA) for three qubits, namely, 12.5 %. In addition, we show that the success probability of both HNA and CNA for three-qubit systems can reach a maximum of $$50~\%$$ in the framework of generalized no-signaling theory.

Deterministic remote preparation of an asymmetric five-party three-qubit entangled state

We propose a novel scheme for remotely preparing an asymmetric five-party three-qubit entangled state by using three-qubit GHZ state as the quantum channel. In this scheme, the sender should employ two novel three-qubit projective measurements on her qubits, respectively. In accord with the sender’s outcomes of measurement, the receiver should carry out local unitary operations on his qubits, the sender’s original state can be recovered. It is shown that, in our scheme, the total success probability of the RSP can reach 1.

Schemes for deterministic joint remote preparation of an arbitrary tripartite four-qubit entangled state

We present two schemes for the joint remote state preparation (JRSP) of an arbitrary tripartite four-qubit entangled state with complex coefficients via four and two three-qubit GHZ states as the quantum channel, respectively. In these schemes, the two senders share the original state which they wish to help the receiver remotely prepare. To complete the JRSP schemes, some novel sets of mutually orthogonal basis vectors are introduced. It is shown that, only if the two senders collaborate with each other, and perform projective measurements under a suitable measuring basis on their own qubits respectively, can the receiver reconstruct the original state by means of some appropriate unitary operations. We demonstrate, in our both schemes, the total success probability of the JRSP can reach 1. Moreover, compared with the first scheme in this paper, the advantage of the second scheme is that the entanglement resource can be reduced.

Economic scheme for remote preparation of an arbitrary five-qubit Brown-type state

A scheme for remotely preparingan arbitrary five-qubit Brown state by using three three-qubit GHZ states as the quantum channel is proposed. It is shown that, after the sender performs two different three-qubit projective measurements, the receiver should introduce two auxiliary qubits and employ suitable C-NOT gates, Toffoli gate and unitary operations on his qubits, the original state can be recovered with unit probability. Compared with the previous scheme, the advantage of the present scheme is that the entanglement resource can be reduced.

Highly noise resistant multiqubit quantum correlations

We analyze robustness of correlations of the N-qubit GHZ and Dicke states against white noise admixture. For sufficiently large N, the Dicke states (for any number of excitations) lead to more robust violation of local realism than the GHZ states (e.g. for N > 8 for the W state). We also identify states that are the most resistant to white noise. Surprisingly, it turns out that these states are the GHZ states augmented with fully product states. Based on our numerical analysis conducted up to N = 8, and an analytical formula derived for any N parties, we conjecture that the three-qubit GHZ state augmented with a product of (N − 3) pure qubits is the most robust against white noise admixture among any N-qubit state. As a by-product, we derive a single Bell inequality and show that it is violated by all pure entangled states of a given number of parties. This gives an alternative proof of Gisin’s theorem.

Tomographic characterization of a linear optical quantum Toffoli gate

We report on a detailed characterization of a three-qubit linear optical quantum Toffoli gate. Our experiment utilizes correlated photon pairs generated in the process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Two qubits are encoded into polarization and spatial degrees of freedom of a signal photon, and the third qubit is represented by polarization of an idler photon. The linear optical Toffoli gate is implemented by interference of photons on a partially polarizing beam splitter inserted inside a Mach Zehnder interferometer formed by two calcite beam displacers. We have measured 4032 different two-photon coincidences, which allows us to estimate the fidelity of the gate to be 90%. Although these data are not tomographically complete, we show that they are sufficient for a reliable reconstruction of the quantum process matrix of the gate via the recently proposed maximum likelihood--maximum entropy estimation procedure. To probe the entangling capability of the gate, we have investigated generation of three-qubit GHZ states from fully and partially separable input states and we have performed a full tomography of the output states. We compare the reconstructed states with theoretical predictions obtained with the use of the estimated quantum process matrix and obtain a very good agreement.

Quantum Information Splitting of a Three-Qubit GHZ State via Maximally Entangled States

In this article, we propose a scheme for splitting a three-qubit GHZ state by using the maximally entangled state as the quantum channel. It will be shown that the state receiver can reconstruct the original state of the sender by applying the appropriate unitary operation. The scheme needs some additional classical information and not Bell-basis measurements. Furthermore, this protocol is feasible with the present technique.

Efficient and Economic Schemes for Remotely Preparing a Four-Qubit Cluster-Type Entangled State

We propose two novel schemes for remotely preparing a four-qubit cluster-type entangled state (FCES) with complex coefficients by using four EPR pairs and two three-qubit GHZ states as the quantum channel, respectively. To complete the remote state preparation (RSP) schemes, several novel sets of four-and two-qubit measuring basis were introduced. In these schemes, after the sender performs two different projective measurements, the receiver should introduce two auxiliary qubits and employ suitable C-NOT gates on his qubits, the original state can be reconstructed with unit successful probability. Compared with the previous schemes for the RSP of a FCES, the advantage of the present schemes is that the entanglement resource can be reduced.

Two Schemes for Probabilistic Remote Preparation of a Four-Particle Entangled Cluster-Type State

Using partial entangled states as the quantum channel, two schemes for probabilistic remote preparation of the four-particle cluster-type state with real and complex coefficients are presented. In the first scheme, the sender and the receiver share two partial Bell states and one partial three-qubit GHZ stats as the quantum channel, and the sender can help a remote receiver to prepare a four-particle entangled cluster-type state by using three-qubit projective measurements with certain probability. In the second scheme, the quantum channel is composed of two partial three-qubit GHZ states, the remote state preparation (RSP) can be successfully realized via the positive operator valued measure (POVM), and the two-particle projective measurements are also needed in this process. The total success probability and classical communication cost are calculated.

Decoherence dynamics of discord for multipartite quantum systems

Quantum discord is an optimal resource for the quantification of classical and non-classical correlations as compared to other related measures. Geometric measure of quantum discord is another measure of quantum correlations. Recently, the geometric quantum discord for multipartite states has been introduced by Jianwei Xu [arxiv:quant/ph.1205.0330]. Motivated from the recent study [Ann. Phys. 327 (2012) 851] for the bipartite systems, I have investigated global quantum discord (QD) and geometric quantum discord (GQD) under the influence of external environments for different multipartite states. Werner-GHZ type three-qubit and six-qubit states are considered in inertial and non-inertial settings. The dynamics of QD and GQD is investigated under amplitude damping, phase damping, depolarizing and flipping channels. It is seen that the quantum discord vanishes for p>0.75 in case of three-qubit GHZ states and for p>0.5 for six qubit GHZ states. This implies that multipartite states are more fragile to decoherence for higher values of N. Surprisingly, a rapid sudden death of discord occurs in case of phase flip channel. However, for bit flip channel, no sudden death happens for the six-qubit states. On the other hand, depolarizing channel heavily influences the QD and GQD as compared to the amplitude damping channel. It means that the depolarizing channel has the most destructive influence on the discords for multipartite states. From the perspective of accelerated observers, it is seen that effect of environment on QD and GQD is much stronger than that of the acceleration of non-inertial frames. The degradation of QD and GQD happens due to Unruh effect. Furthermore, QD exhibits more robustness than GQD when the multipartite systems are exposed to environment.

Entanglement evolution of three-qubit mixed states in multipartite cavity—reservoir systems

We analyze the multipartite entanglement evolution of three-qubit mixed states composed of a GHZ state and a W state. For a composite system consisting of three cavities interacting with independent reservoirs, it is shown that the entanglement evolution is restricted by a set of monogamy relations. Furthermore, as quantified by the negativity, the entanglement dynamical property of the mixed entangled state of cavity photons is investigated. It is found that the three cavity photons can exhibit the phenomenon of entanglement sudden death (ESD). However, compared with the evolution of a generalized three-qubit GHZ state which has the equal initial entanglement, the ESD time of mixed states is later than that of the pure state. Finally, we discuss the entanglement distribution in the multipartite system, and point out the intrinsic relation between the ESD of cavity photons and the entanglement sudden birth of reservoirs.

Experimental investigation of the robustness against noise for different Bell-type inequalities in three-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states

There are different families of inequalities that can be used to characterize the entanglement of multiqubit entangled states by the violation of quantum mechanics prediction versus local realism prediction. In a noisy environment, the violation of different inequalities distinguishes a direct from a noise-free environment. That is, each inequality has a different robustness against noise. We investigate theoretically and experimentally this proposition with the Mermin inequality, Bell inequality, and Svetlichny inequality using three-qubit GHZ states for different levels of noise. Our purpose is to determine which one of the inequalities is more robust against noise and thus more suitable to characterize entanglement of states. Our results show that the Mermin inequality is the most robust against stronger noise and is, thus, more suitable for characterizing the entanglement of three-qubit GHZ states in a noisy environment.

Generating and stabilizing the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state in circuit QED: Joint measurement, Zeno effect, and feedback

In solid-state circuit QED system, we extend the previous study of generating and stabilizing two-qubit Bell state [Phys. Rev. A 82, 032335 (2010)], to three-qubit GHZ state. In dispersive regime, we employ the homodyne joint readout for multiple qubits to infer the state for further processing, and in particular use it to stabilize the state directly by means of an alternate-flip-interrupted Zeno (AFIZ) scheme. Moreover, the state-of-the-art feedback action based on the filtered current enables not only a deterministic generation of the pre-GHZ state in the initial stage, but also a fast recovery from the environment-caused degradation in the later stabilization process. We show that the proposed scheme can maintain the state with high fidelity if the efficient quantum measurement and rapid single-qubit rotations are available.

Estimating multipartite entanglement measures

We investigate the lower bound obtained from experimental data of a quantum state $\rho$, as proposed independently by G\"uhne et al. and Eisert et al. for mixed states of three qubits. The measure we consider is the convex-roof extended three-tangle. Our findings highlight an intimate relation to lower bounds obtained recently from so-called characteristic curves of a given entanglement measure. We apply the bounds to estimate the three-tangle present in recently performed experiments aimed at producing a three-qubit GHZ state. A non-vanishing lower bound is obtained if the GHZ-fidelity of the produced states is larger than 3/4.

Revised Geometric Measure of Entanglement for Multipartite and Continuous Variable Systems

Based on the revised geometric measure of entanglement (RGME) proposed by us [J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 40 (2007) 3507], we obtain the RGME of multipartite state including three-qubit GHZ state, W state, and the generalized Smolin state (GSS) in the presence of noise and the two-mode squeezed thermal state. Moreover, we compare their RGME with geometric measure of entanglement (GME) and relative entropy of entanglement (RE). The results indicate RGME is an appropriate measure of entanglement. Finally, we define the Gaussian GME which is an entangled monotone.