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Genuine Multipartite Entanglement in Time
by Simon Milz, Cornelia Spee, Zhen-Peng Xu, Felix A. Pollock, Kavan Modi, Otfried Gühne
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Otfried Gühne · Simon Milz |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09340v2 (pdf) |
| Date submitted: | 2021-02-19 18:34 |
| Submitted by: | Milz, Simon |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
While spatial quantum correlations have been studied in great detail, much less is known about the genuine quantum correlations that can be exhibited by temporal processes. Employing the quantum comb formalism, processes in time can be mapped onto quantum states, with the crucial difference that temporal correlations have to satisfy causal ordering, while their spatial counterpart is not constrained in the same way. Here, we exploit this equivalence and use the tools of multipartite entanglement theory to provide a comprehensive picture of the structure of correlations that (causally ordered) temporal quantum processes can display. First, focusing on the case of a process that is probed at two points in time -- which can equivalently be described by a tripartite quantum state -- we provide necessary as well as sufficient conditions for the presence of bipartite entanglement in different splittings. Next, we connect these scenarios to the previously studied concepts of quantum memory, entanglement breaking superchannels, and quantum steering, thus providing both a physical interpretation for entanglement in temporal quantum processes, and a determination of the resources required for its creation. Additionally, we construct explicit examples of W-type and GHZ-type genuinely multipartite entangled two-time processes and prove that genuine multipartite entanglement in temporal processes can be an emergent phenomenon. Finally, we show that genuinely entangled processes across multiple times exist for any number of probing times.
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Report #2 by Anonymous (Referee 2) on 2021-5-10 (Invited Report)
- Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:2011.09340v2, delivered 2021-05-10, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.2896
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The authors present a comprehensive view of genuine multipartite entanglement in time using the quantum comb formalism. They mainly concentrate on processes that are probed at two time-points. It allows to effectively describe the system as three qubits. In the next sections, it is shown how to construct a necessary and sufficient condition for bipartite entanglement in different partitions. The paper is accompanied by examples of processes corresponding to the well-known GHZ and W type states.
The work is excellently written and, as I wrote earlier, is a comprehensive study of the problem (with all the details). The structure of the work resembles a PhD dissertation. The paper will be of interest to the quantum information community and the way it is presented will make it easy to understand at any level of experience.
I have no comments and recommend publishing the manuscript as it is.
Report #1 by Anonymous (Referee 1) on 2021-5-9 (Invited Report)
- Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:2011.09340v2, delivered 2021-05-09, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.2888
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The submitted manuscript entitled "Genuine Multipartite Entanglement in Time" by S. Milz et al. addresses the question of obtaining genuine multipartite entanglement in temporal processes. In this work using the so-called quantum comb procedure temporal processes are transformed to the spatial domain with the restriction that temporal correlations have to admit causal ordering (unlike spatial correlations). This mapping allows the Authors to apply established tools in the theory of multipartite entanglement to reveal the structure of temporal quantum correlations.
In my view this is a very nice piece of work which unifies several key concepts about multiple-time temporal processes. In particular, the paper gives conditions for the presence of "bipartite entanglement" in different splittings associated with two-time processes. The studied scenarios are linked to the well-developed concepts of quantum memory, entanglement breaking channels and EPR steering. Furthermore, explicit examples are provided in the two-time scenario for the enigmatic GHZ and W-states.
In my view, the paper is very well written and the results obtained are correct. Also, all the presented examples are elegant. I highly recommend the paper for publication.
Minor technical comment/question:
- Page 32: second line above the bottom of the page: "non-commuting" -> "non-communicating"
- Section 6: The Authors show the existence of processes that are entangled in any bipartition, yet these processes are not genuinely tripartite entangled. In other words, it is shown that entanglement in every splitting E(A:BC)>0, E(C:AB)>0, E(B:AC)>0 does not imply in general genuinely tripartite entanglement. I would like to ask whether the stronger conditions for entanglement in the three marginals E(A:B)>0, E(B:C)>0, E(A:C)>0 would still imply genuinely tripartite entanglement for temporal processes.
Author: Simon Milz on 2021-05-18 [id 1431]
(in reply to Report 1 on 2021-05-09)We thank the Referee for their careful reading of our manuscript and their positive evaluation. We have changed the typo on p. 32. With respect to the question of whether the stronger condition E(A:B)>0, E(B:C)>0, and E(A:C)>0 implies genuine multipartite entanglement for combs: Due to the causality constraints on combs, E(A:B) always vanishes. On the other hand, Eq. (45) in the manuscript already provides a process that satisfies E(A:B)>0 and E(B:C)>0 but is biseparable. We have added a sentence below Eq. (45) to emphasize that the provided process not only constitutes an example for a comb that satisfies E(A:BC)>0, E(B:AC)>0, and E(C:AB)>0 but is not GME, but at the same time also shows that the conceptually different question of whether E(A:B)>0 and E(B:C)>0 imply GME for combs has a negative answer.
Anonymous on 2021-05-21 [id 1445]
(in reply to Simon Milz on 2021-05-18 [id 1431])I highly recommend the paper for publication in SciPost Physics.
Author: Simon Milz on 2021-05-18 [id 1433]
(in reply to Report 2 on 2021-05-10)We thank the Referees for their careful reading as well as their positive evaluation of our manuscript.