Density matrix and fidelity estimation of multiphoton entanglement via phaselift (1403.0673v2)

Abstract: The experiments of multi-photon entanglements have been made by some groups, including Pan's group (Ref.[2],[3],[5]). Obviously, the increase number of the photon would cause a dramatically increase in the dimension of the measurement matrix, which result in a great consumption of time in the measurements. From a practical view, we wish to gain the most information through as little measurements as possible for the multi-photon entanglements. The low rank matrix recovery (LRMR) provides such a possibility to resolve all the issues of the measurement matrix based on less data. In this paper, we would like to verify that whether the LRMR works for six qubits and eight photons in comparison to the data given by Pan's group, i.e. we input a fraction of the data to calculate all of others. Through exploring their density matrix, fidelity and visibility, we find that the results remain consistent with the data provided by Pan's group, which allows us to confirm that the LRMR can simplify experimental measure- ments for more photons. In particular, we find that very limited data would also give excellent support to the experiment for fidelity when low rank, pure state, sparse or position information are utilized. Our analytical calculations confirm that LRMR would generalize to multi-photon state entanglement.