Characterizing multipartite entanglement without shared reference frames

© 2015 American Physical Society. Multipartite entanglement constitutes one of the key resources in quantum information processing. We exploit correlation tensor norms to develop a framework for its experimental detection without the need for shared frames of reference. By bounding these norms for partially separable states and states of limited dimension, we achieve an extensive characterization of entanglement in multipartite systems in an experimentally feasible way. Furthermore, we show that both bi- and multipartite dimensionality of entanglement can be revealed by our methods.