Quantification of complementarity in multiqubit systems
Xinhua Peng, Xiwen Zhu, Dieter Suter, Jiangfeng Du, Maili Liu, Kelin Gao · Physical Review A · 2005
Complementarity was originally introduced as a qualitative concept for the discussion of properties of quantum mechanical objects that are classically incompatible. More recently, complementarity has become a quantitative relation between classically incompatible properties, such as the visibility of interference fringes and ``which-way'' information, but also between purely quantum mechanical properties, such as measures of entanglement. We discuss different complementarity relations for systems of two-, three-, or $n$ qubits. Using nuclear magnetic resonance techniques, we have experimentally verified some of these complementarity relations in a two-qubit system.