Entanglement Distribution Revealed by Macroscopic Observations

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    Abstract

    What can we learn about entanglement between individual particles in macroscopic samples by observing only the collective properties of the ensembles? Using only a few experimentally feasible collective properties, we establish an entanglement measure between two samples of spin-1/2 particles (as representatives of two-dimensional quantum systems). This is a tight lower bound for the average entanglement between all pairs of spins in general and is equal to the average entanglement for a certain class of systems. We compute the entanglement measures for explicit examples and show how to generalize the method to more than two samples and multipartite entanglement.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number050304(R)
    Number of pages4
    JournalPhysical Review A
    Volume74
    Issue number5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2006

    Austrian Fields of Science 2012

    • 103008 Experimental physics

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