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Bimodal behavior of post-measured entropy and one-way quantum deficit for two-qubit X states

Quantum Physics 2017-12-27 v2

Abstract

A method for calculating the one-way quantum deficit is developed. It involves a careful study of post-measured entropy shapes. We discovered that in some regions of X-state space the post-measured entropy S~\tilde S as a function of measurement angle θ[0,π/2]\theta\in[0,\pi/2] exhibits a bimodal behavior inside the open interval (0,π/2)(0,\pi/2), i.e., it has two interior extrema: one minimum and one maximum. Furthermore, cases are found when the interior minimum of such a bimodal function S~(θ)\tilde S(\theta) is less than that one at the endpoint θ=0\theta=0 or π/2\pi/2. This leads to the formation of a boundary between the phases of one-way quantum deficit via {\em finite} jumps of optimal measured angle from the endpoint to the interior minimum. Phase diagram is built up for a two-parameter family of X states. The subregions with variable optimal measured angle are around 1%\% of the total region, with their relative linear sizes achieving 17.5%17.5\%, and the fidelity between the states of those subregions can be reduced to F=0.968F=0.968. In addition, a correction to the one-way deficit due to the interior minimum can achieve 2.3%2.3\%. Such conditions are favorable to detect the subregions with variable optimal measured angle of one-way quantum deficit in an experiment.

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@article{arxiv.1706.02852,
  title  = {Bimodal behavior of post-measured entropy and one-way quantum deficit for two-qubit X states},
  author = {M. A. Yurischev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.02852},
  year   = {2017}
}

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14 pages, 8 figures