Entanglement detection via mutually unbiased bases

Abstract

We investigate correlations among complementary observables. In particular, we show how to take advantage of mutually unbiased bases for the efficient detection of entanglement in arbitrarily high-dimensional, multipartite, and continuous-variable quantum systems. The introduced entanglement criteria are relatively easy to implement experimentally since they require only a few local measurement settings. In addition, we establish a link between the separability problem and the maximum number of mutually unbiased bases-opening an additional avenue in this long-standing open problem. © 2012 American Physical Society.