Maximum $N$-body correlations do not in general imply genuine multipartite entanglement
1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany
2Departamento de Química Física, Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, E-48080 Bilbao, Spain
3IKERBASQUE Basque Foundation for Science, E-48013 Bilbao, Spain
| Published: | 2020-02-10, volume 4, page 229 |
| Eprint: | arXiv:1908.04220v2 |
| Doi: | https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2020-02-10-229 |
| Citation: | Quantum 4, 229 (2020). |
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Abstract
The existence of correlations between the parts of a quantum system on the one hand, and entanglement between them on the other, are different properties. Yet, one intuitively would identify strong $N$-party correlations with $N$-party entanglement in an $N$-partite quantum state. If the local systems are qubits, this intuition is confirmed: The state with the strongest $N$-party correlations is the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state, which does have genuine multipartite entanglement. However, for high-dimensional local systems the state with strongest $N$-party correlations may be a tensor product of Bell states, that is, partially separable. We show this by introducing several novel tools for handling the Bloch representation.
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