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$4\times4$ unextendible product basis and genuinely entangled space

Quantum Physics 2019-01-21 v1

Abstract

We show that there are six inequivalent 4×44\times4 unextendible product bases (UPBs) of size eight, when we consider only 4-qubit product vectors. We apply our results to construct Positive-Partial-Transpose entangled states of rank nine. They are at the same 4-qubit, 2×2×42\times2\times4 and 4×44\times4 states, and their ranges have product vectors. One of the six UPBs turns out to be orthogonal to an almost genuinely entangled space, in the sense that the latter does not contain 4×44\times4 product vector in any bipartition of 4-qubit systems. We also show that the multipartite UPB orthogonal to a genuinely entangled space exists if and only if the n×n×nn\times n\times n UPB orthogonal to a genuinely entangled space exists for some nn. These results help understand an open problem in [Phys. Rev. A 98, 012313, 2018].

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@article{arxiv.1901.06093,
  title  = {$4\times4$ unextendible product basis and genuinely entangled space},
  author = {Kai Wang and Lin Chen and Lijun Zhao and Yumin Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1901.06093},
  year   = {2019}
}