Configuration of separability and tests for multipartite entanglement in bell-type experiments

Phys Rev Lett. 2002 Dec 23;89(26):260401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.260401. Epub 2002 Dec 10.

Abstract

We derive tight quadratic inequalities for all kinds of hybrid separable-inseparable n-particle density operators on an arbitrary dimensional space. This methodology enables us to derive a tight quadratic inequality as tests for full n-partite entanglement in various Bell-type correlation experiments on the systems that may not be identified as a collection of qubits, e.g., those involving photons measured by incomplete detectors. It is also proved that when the two measured observables are assumed to precisely anticommute, a stronger quadratic inequality can be used as a witness of full n-partite entanglement.