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Entanglement and the truncated moment problem

Quantum Physics 2017-09-20 v1

Abstract

We map the quantum entanglement problem onto the mathematically well-studied truncated moment problem. This yields a necessary and sufficient condition for separability that can be checked by a hierarchy of semi-definite programs. The algorithm always gives a certificate of entanglement if the state is entangled. If the state is separable, typically a certificate of separability is obtained in a finite number of steps and an explicit decomposition into separable pure states can be extracted.

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@article{arxiv.1704.02277,
  title  = {Entanglement and the truncated moment problem},
  author = {Fabian Bohnet-Waldraff and Daniel Braun and Olivier Giraud},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.02277},
  year   = {2017}
}

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13 pages

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