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Observation of Entangled States of a Fully Controlled 20-Qubit System

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We generate and characterise entangled states of a register of 20 individually controlled qubits, where each qubit is encoded into the electronic state of a trapped atomic ion. Entanglement is generated amongst the qubits during the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of an Ising-type Hamiltonian, engineered via laser fields. Since the qubit-qubit interactions decay with distance, entanglement is generated at early times predominantly between neighbouring groups of qubits. We characterise entanglement between these groups by designing and applying witnesses for genuine multipartite entanglement. Our results show that, during the dynamical evolution, all neighbouring qubit pairs, triplets, most quadruplets, and some quintuplets simultaneously develop genuine multipartite entanglement. Witnessing genuine multipartite entanglement in larger groups of qubits in our system remains an open challenge.

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  • On the existence of fully inseparable biseparable Gaussian states quant-ph · 2026-05-27 · unverdicted · none · ref 21 · internal anchor

    Numerical evidence from projections and witnesses on specific Gaussian families leads to the conjecture that full inseparability implies genuine multipartite entanglement for all Gaussian states.

  • Entanglement Certification $-$ From Theory to Experiment quant-ph · 2019-06-26 · unverdicted · none · ref 254 · internal anchor

    Reviews paradigmatic entanglement quantifiers and state-of-the-art detection/certification methods, with emphasis on assumptions about states and measurements.