Quantum Information, 2 Volume Set, 2nd Edition

14 Multipartite Entanglement

Michael Walter^1,2 David Gross^3,4 and Jens Eisert⁵

¹ University of Amsterdam (KdVI, ITFA, ILLC) and QuSoft, Science Park 105-107, 1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands

² Stanford University, Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA

³ University of Cologne, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Zülpicher Str. 77, 50937 Köln, Germany

⁴ The University of Sydney, Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems, School of Physics, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

⁵ Freie Universität Berlin, Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems, 14195 Berlin, Germany

14.1 Introduction

In this chapter, we generalize entanglement theory from two‐partite to multipartite systems. Here, the term multipartite may refer ...