Entanglement witnesses of four-qubit tripartite separable quantum states

Abstract

Abstract A quantum entangled state is easily disturbed by noise and degenerates into a separable state. Comparing to the entanglement of bipartite quantum systems, less progresses have been made for the entanglement of multipartite quantum systems. For tripartite separability of a four-qubit system, we propose two entanglement witnesses, each of which corresponds to a necessary condition of tripartite separability. For the four-qubit GHZ state mixed with a W state and white noise, it is proved that the necessary conditions of tripartite separability are also sufficient at W state side.