Generalising concentratable entanglement for practical applications: mixed, qudit, and optical states (2112.04333v7)

Abstract: The controlled SWAP test for detecting and quantifying entanglement applied to pure qubit states is robust to small errors in the states, and efficient for large multi-qubit states [Foulds et al., QST 6 035002, 2021]. We extend this, and the related measure \emph{concentratable entanglement} (CE), to enable important practical applications in quantum information processing. We provide the analytical probability expressions for the test on higher dimensional (qudit) states, determination of entanglement across a bipartite cut in multi-qubit states, and some key types of entangled optical states. We investigate the lower bound of concentratable entanglement given in J. L. Beckey et al., Phys. Rev. A 107, 062425 (2023) and conjecture an upper bound of the mixed state concentrable entanglement that is robust to c-SWAP test errors. Since experimental states are always slightly mixed, our work makes the c-SWAP test and CE measure suitable for application in experiments to characterise entanglement.