Self-testing of symmetric three-qubit states

Abstract

Self-testing refers to a device-independent way to uniquely identify the state and the measurement for uncharacterized quantum devices. The only information required comprises the number of measurements, the number of outputs of each measurement, and the statistics of each measurement. Earlier results on self-testing of multipartite state were restricted either to Dicke states or graph states. In this paper, we propose self-testing schemes for a large family of symmetric three-qubit states, namely the superposition of W state and GHZ state. We first propose and analytically prove a self-testing criterion for the special symmetric state with equal coefficients of the canonical basis, by designing subsystem self-testing of partially and maximally entangled state simultaneously. Then we demonstrate for the general case, the states can be self-tested numerically by the swap method combining semi-definite programming (SDP) in high precision.

arXiv comment9 pages,3 figures

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