Detection of mode-intrinsic quantum entanglement
Carlos E. Lopetegui, Mathieu Isoard, Nicolas Treps, Mattia Walschaers · Optica Quantum · 2025
Quantum correlations are at the core of quantum information processing and are necessary to achieve a quantum computational advantage. In the context of continuous-variable quantum systems, another necessary resource for quantum advantages is non-Gaussianity. In this work, we propose a witness based on previously known relations between metrological power and quantum correlations, to detect a strong form of entanglement that only non-Gaussian states possess and that cannot be undone by passive optical operations, i.e., entanglement in all mode bases. The strength of our witness is two-fold: it only requires measurements in one basis to check entanglement in any arbitrary mode basis; it can be made applicable experimentally using homodyne measurements and without requiring a full tomography of the state.