The controlled SWAP test for determining quantum entanglement

Quantum entanglement is essential to the development of quantum computation, communications, and technology. The controlled SWAP test, widely used for state comparison, can be adapted to an efficient and useful test for entanglement of a pure state. Here we show that the test can evidence the presence of entanglement (and further, genuine n -qubit entanglement), can distinguish entanglement classes, and that the concurrence of a two-qubit state...