Deterministic and programmable generation of mechanical multipartite entangled states

Multimode mechanical resonators offer a large set of densely packed, long-lived bosonic modes within a single compact device, making them attractive for quantum simulation, quantum information processing, and quantum-enhanced sensing. Many such applications rely on multipartite entanglement, yet deterministic mechanical entanglement has so far been largely limited to pairs of modes. Here we demonstrate the deterministic and programmable preparation of multipartite entangled states among the phonon modes of a high-overtone bulk acoustic wave resonator coupled to a superconducting transmon qubit. By sequentially applying optimal-control-engineered isometries between the qubit and successive modes, we generate matrix product states of bond dimension two, including $W$, Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ), and cluster states. We fully characterize these states via quantum state tomography and certify genuine multipartite entanglement among up to four modes. We further demonstrate correlated-noise sensing by exploiting the complementary decoherence responses of the stored $W$ and GHZ states, isolating inter-mode phase correlations from local decoherence and placing quantitative bounds on collective dephasing. Our results establish a scalable approach to preparing multipartite entangled states in mechanical systems, with promising applications in multiparameter sensing and tests of quantum mechanics with massive objects.

Source: arXiv:2610.18778v1 - http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18778v1 PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.18778v1 Original Link: http://arxiv.org/abs/2610.18778v1