Scheme to generate and discriminate a type of multipartite maximally entangled states in ion-trap

This paper proposes a scheme to generate, in an ion-trap, a type of multipartite maximally entangled state which was first introduced by Chen et al. Chen P X, Zhu S Y and Guo G C 2006 Phys. Rev. A 74 032324. The maximum entanglement property of these states is examined. It also demonstrates how to discriminate among these states in the ion-trap.