Narrow Results

The paper presents a detailed study of controlled dense coding scheme for different types of three and four-particle states. It consists of GHZ state, GHZ type states, maximal slice (MS), state, 4-particle GHZ state and W class of states. It is shown that GHZ-type states can be used for controlled dense coding in a probabilistic sense. We have shown relations among parameter of GHZ type state, concurrence of the shared bipartite state by two parties with respect to GHZ type and Charlie's measurement angle θ. The GHZ states as a special case of MS states, depending on parameters, have also been considered here. We have seen that tripartite W state and quadripartite W state cannot be used in controlled dense coding whereas |W_n〉_ABC states can be used probabilistically. Finally, we have investigated controlled dense coding scheme for tripartite qutrit states.

We geometrically examine the entanglement in symmetric multiquibt states using the spin coherent states properties. We employ the Majorana representation to examine how coherent (polarized) and unpolarized states can be represented in the Bloch sphere and subsequently to quantify entanglement in multipartite systems. Entanglement can be viewed as a distance separate two points in Bloch sphere and how this notion can be extended for multipartite states in W class. This provides us with an entanglement measure for $W$-states analogue to the notion of Concurrence.