Typical Entanglement in Multi-qubit Systems

Kendon, Vivien M. ; Nemoto, Kae ; Munro, William J.

HP Development Company

关键词: characterisation of entanglement;    quantum information;   

RP-ID  :  HPL-2001-217

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: HP Labs

【 摘 要 】

Please Note. This abstract contains mathematical formulae which cannot be represented here. Quantum entanglement and its paradoxical properties hold the key to an information processing revolution. Much attention has focused recently on the challenging problem of characterizing entanglement. Entanglement for a two qubit system is reasonably well understood, however, the nature and properties of multiple qubit systems are largely unexplored. We have found that typical pure states of N qubits are highly entangled but have decreasing amounts of pairwise entanglement as N increases. Above 6 qubits very few states have any pairwise entanglement, and generally, m-way entanglement disappears from a typical pure state of N qubits for N 2m + 3. Notes: Vivien M. Kendon, Optics Section, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London SW7 2BW, U.K. Kae Nemoto, School of Informatics, Dean Street, University of Wales, Bangor, LL57 1UT, U.K. 5 Pages