Geometric representation of two-qubit entanglement witnesses
Quantum Physics
2015-07-13 v2
Abstract
Any two-qubit state can be represented geometrically by a steering ellipsoid inside the Bloch sphere. We extend this approach to represent any block positive two-qubit operator . We derive a novel classification scheme based on the positivity of and ; this shows that any ellipsoid inside the Bloch sphere must represent either a two-qubit state or a two-qubit entanglement witness. We focus on such witnesses and their corresponding ellipsoids, finding that properties such as witness optimality are naturally manifest in this geometric representation.
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@article{arxiv.1407.8440,
title = {Geometric representation of two-qubit entanglement witnesses},
author = {Antony Milne and David Jennings and Terry Rudolph},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.8440},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
8 pages, 4 figures. Published version