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Geometry for separable states and construction of entangled states with positive partial transposes

Quantum Physics 2013-09-06 v1 Operator Algebras

Abstract

We construct faces of the convex set of all 242\otimes 4 bipartite separable states, which are affinely isomorphic to the simplex Δ9\Delta_{9} with ten extreme points. Every interior point of these faces is a separable state which has a unique decomposition into 10 product states, even though ranks of the state and its partial transpose are 5 and 7, respectively. We also note that the number 10 is greater than 2×42\times 4, to disprove a conjecture on the lengths of qubit-qudit separable states. This face is inscribed in the corresponding face of the convex set of all PPT states so that sub-simplices Δk\Delta_k of Δ9\Delta_{9} share the boundary if and only if k5k\le 5. This enables us to find a large class of 242\otimes 4 PPT entangled edge states with rank five.

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@article{arxiv.1307.1362,
  title  = {Geometry for separable states and construction of entangled states with positive partial transposes},
  author = {Kil-Chan Ha and Seung-Hyeok Kye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.1362},
  year   = {2013}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures