Entanglement and the geometry of two qubits
Quantum Physics
2014-07-22 v2
Abstract
Two qubits is the simplest system where the notions of separable and entangled states and entanglement witnesses first appear. We give a three dimensional geometric description of these notions. This description however carries no quantitative information on the measure of entanglement. A four dimensional description captures also the entanglement measure. We give a neat formula for the Bell states which leads to a slick proof of the fundamental teleportation identity. We describe optimal distillation of two qubits geometrically and present a simple geometric proof of the Peres-Horodecki separability criterion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0807.0212,
title = {Entanglement and the geometry of two qubits},
author = {J. E. Avron and O. Kenneth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.0212},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Added one figure and one reference. Added a key idenity for teleportation