Catalytic Activation of Genuine Multipartite Entanglement and Nonlocality
quant-ph
Submitted: 2026-09-16
Updated: 2026-09-16
Comments: 6+5 pages; 1+2 figures
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: We demonstrate the possibility to activate genuine multipartite entanglement (GME), the strongest form of entanglement for multipartite states, within the framework of quantum catalysis.
Terminology
Abstract
We demonstrate the possibility to activate genuine multipartite entanglement (GME), the strongest form of entanglement for multipartite states, within the framework of quantum catalysis. Specifically, we show that any biseparable state (i.e. not GME) that is not partition separable can be deterministically transformed into a GME state via the help of a catalyst and local operations, without any classical communication. In turn, we construct a catalytic protocol tailored to the multipartite case. The protocol is termed "sum-to-product", as it transforms a mixture of states into their tensor product in a heralded manner. We apply this protocol to random network entangled states, which are biseparable by construction, and demonstrate catalytic activation of both GME and genuine multipartite Bell nonlocality.
Sources
- Multipartite entanglement
- Superactivation and Incompressibility of Genuine Multipartite Entanglement
- Superactivation of genuine multipartite Bell nonlocality from two-party entanglement
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