Regular Article

Entanglement condition for W type multimode states and schemes for experimental realization

¹ Department of Physics, Thiagarajar College, 625009 Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
² Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, 741246 Mohanpur, West Bengal, India

^a e-mail: karthick.selvan@yahoo.com
^b e-mail: pprasanta@iiserkol.ac.in

Received: 7 January 2019
Received in final form: 5 April 2019
Published online: 20 June 2019

Abstract

We derive a class of inequality relations, using both the sum uncertainty relations of su(2) algebra operators and the Schrodinger–Robertson uncertainty relation of partially transposed su(1,1) algebra operators, to detect the three-mode entanglement of non-Gaussian states of electromagnetic field. These operators are quadratic in mode creation and annihilation operators. The inseparability condition obtained using su(2) algebra operators is shown to guarantee the violation of Schrodinger–Robertson uncertainty relation of partially transposed su(1,1) algebra operators. The obtained inseparability condition incorporates all the required bipartite entanglement conditions to detect the W type three-mode entangled states and hence it is shown to be a necessary condition for W type three-mode entangled states. A general form for a family of such inseparability conditions is provided. The results derived for three-mode systems are generalized to multimode systems. Experimental schemes using symmetric multiport beam splitters and multi-Λ EIT system are proposed to test the violation of multimode separability condition.