Generating entanglement between more parties is one of the central tasks and challenges in the backdrop of building quantum technologies. I will discuss two recently proposed protocols to create genuine multipartite entangled states in networks — measurement-based and deterministic schemes. In the former case, we employ weak entangling measurement on two parties as the basic unit of operation to produce entanglement between more parties starting from an entangled state with a lesser number of parties and auxiliary single-qubit systems which we call “multipartite entanglement inflation”. The latter deterministic procedure involves optimization over a set of two-qubit arbitrary unitary operators and the entanglement of the initial resource state which we refer to as entanglement circulation.
