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Integral representations of separable states

Mathematical Physics 2010-01-11 v2 math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We study a separability problem suggested by mathematical description of bipartite quantum systems. We consider Hermitian 2-forms on the tensor product H=KLH=K\otimes L, where K,LK,L are finite dimensional complex spaces. Inspired by quantum mechanical terminology we call such a form separable if it is a convex combination of hermitian tensor products (σp)σp(\sigma_p)^*\odot \sigma_p of 1-forms σp\sigma_p on HH that are product forms σp=ϕpψp\sigma_p=\phi_p\otimes \psi_p, where ϕpK\phi_p\in K^*, ψpL\psi_p\in L^*. We introduce an integral representation of separable forms. In particular, we show that the integral of (D_{z^*}}\Phi)^*\odot D_{z^*}\Phi of any square integrable map Φ:\Cn\Cm\Phi:\C^n\to \C^m, with square integrable conjugate derivative DzΦD_{z^*}\Phi, is a separable form. Vice versa, any separable form in the interior of the set of such forms, can be represented in this way. This implies that any separable mixed state (and only such states) can be either explicitly represented in the integral form, or it may be arbitrarily well approximated by such states.

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@article{arxiv.0802.0291,
  title  = {Integral representations of separable states},
  author = {Bronisław Jakubczyk and Gabriel Pietrzkowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0802.0291},
  year   = {2010}
}

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21 pages, no figures, added references, to appear in Reports on Mathematical Physics

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