Experimental detection of multipartite entanglement using witness operators.
Indexed on: 05 Mar '04Published on: 05 Mar '04Published in: Physical review letters
Abstract
We present the experimental detection of genuine multipartite entanglement using entanglement witness operators. To this aim, we introduce a canonical way of constructing and decomposing witness operators so that they can be directly implemented with present technology. We apply this method to three- and four-qubit entangled states of polarized photons, giving experimental evidence that the considered states contain true multipartite entanglement.
