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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.

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@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

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