Minimal Subsystems for Characterizing Genuine Multipartite Entanglement
Abstract
Genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) is a valuable resource for quantum technologies, but quantifying it in many-body systems can be demanding since measures defined through optimizations over bipartitions are often assumed to require large joint measurements and many measurement settings. We introduce the concepts of GME evaluation length and GME evaluation number, which capture, respectively, the largest subsystem that must be jointly measured and the number of distinct subsystems that need to be measured to evaluate multipartite entanglement measures defined via bipartition optimizations. Taking the genuine multipartite concurrence (GMC) as a canonical example, we show that, for N-qubit Haar-random pure states, the GMC can be evaluated using only N single-qubit purity measurements. Thus, for typical many-body states, evaluating the GMC requires considering only the N single-site bipartitions, rather than the exponentially many distinct bipartitions. We further corroborate this behavior numerically for physically accessible states generated by local random quantum circuits. Our results show that the practical cost of quantifying GME can be dramatically lower than suggested by its formal definition, establishing measurement complexity as a complementary operational lens for multipartite entanglement.
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BibTeX
@misc{shekhar2026minimal,
title = {{Minimal Subsystems for Characterizing Genuine Multipartite Entanglement}},
author = {Shashank Shekhar and Siddhartha Santra},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.16215},
eprint = {2610.16215},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.16215},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Minimal Subsystems for Characterizing Genuine Multipartite Entanglement
AU - Shashank Shekhar
AU - Siddhartha Santra
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/12
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.16215
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.16215
AB - Genuine multipartite entanglement (GME) is a valuable resource for quantum technologies, but quantifying it in many-body systems can be demanding since measures defined through optimizations over bipartitions are often assumed to require large joint measurements and many measurement settings. We introduce the concepts of GME evaluation length and GME evaluation number, which capture, respectively, the largest subsystem that must be jointly measured and the number of distinct subsystems that need to be measured to evaluate multipartite entanglement measures defined via bipartition optimizations. Taking the genuine multipartite concurrence (GMC) as a canonical example, we show that, for N-qubit Haar-random pure states, the GMC can be evaluated using only N single-qubit purity measurements. Thus, for typical many-body states, evaluating the GMC requires considering only the N single-site bipartitions, rather than the exponentially many distinct bipartitions. We further corroborate this behavior numerically for physically accessible states generated by local random quantum circuits. Our results show that the practical cost of quantifying GME can be dramatically lower than suggested by its formal definition, establishing measurement complexity as a complementary operational lens for multipartite entanglement.
ER -