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Master Lovas-Andai and Equivalent Formulas Verifying the $\frac{8}{33}$ Two-Qubit Hilbert-Schmidt Separability Probability and Companion Rational-Valued Conjectures

Quantum Physics 2018-02-28 v9 Mathematical Physics math.MP Probability

Abstract

We begin by investigating relationships between two forms of Hilbert-Schmidt two-re[al]bit and two-qubit "separability functions"--those recently advanced by Lovas and Andai (J. Phys. A 50 [2017] 295303), and those earlier presented by Slater (J. Phys. A 40 [2007] 14279). In the Lovas-Andai framework, the independent variable ε[0,1]\varepsilon \in [0,1] is the ratio σ(V)\sigma(V) of the singular values of the 2×22 \times 2 matrix V=D21/2D11/2V=D_2^{1/2} D_1^{-1/2} formed from the two 2×22 \times 2 diagonal blocks (D1,D2D_1, D_2) of a 4×44 \times 4 density matrix DD. In the Slater setting, the independent variable μ\mu is the diagonal-entry ratio ρ11ρ44ρ22ρ33\sqrt{\frac{\rho_{11} \rho_{44}}{\rho_{22} \rho_{33}}}--with, of central importance, μ=ε\mu=\varepsilon or μ=1ε\mu=\frac{1}{\varepsilon} when both D1D_1 and D2D_2 are themselves diagonal. Lovas and Andai established that their two-rebit "separability function" χ~1(ε)\tilde{\chi}_1 (\varepsilon ) (ε\approx \varepsilon) yields the previously conjectured Hilbert-Schmidt separability probability of 2964\frac{29}{64}. We are able, in the Slater framework (using cylindrical algebraic decompositions [CAD] to enforce positivity constraints), to reproduce this result. Further, we newly find its two-qubit (yielding 833\frac{8}{33}), two-quater[nionic]-bit (yielding 26323\frac{26}{323}) and "two-octo[nionic]-bit" (yielding 444824091349\frac{44482}{4091349}) counterparts. Then, we find a Lovas-Andai "master formula", χd~(ε)=εdΓ(d+1)33F~2(d2,d2,d;d2+1,3d2+1;ε2)Γ(d2+1)2\tilde{\chi_d}(\varepsilon)= \frac{\varepsilon ^d \Gamma (d+1)^3 \,_3\tilde{F}_2\left(-\frac{d}{2},\frac{d}{2},d;\frac{d}{2}+1,\frac{3d}{2}+1;\varepsilon ^2\right)}{\Gamma \left(\frac{d}{2}+1\right)^2} encompassing both even and odd values of dd. C. Koutschan, then, using his HolonomicFunctions program, develops an order-4 recurrence satisfied by the predictions of the several formulas, establishing their equivalence.

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@article{arxiv.1701.01973,
  title  = {Master Lovas-Andai and Equivalent Formulas Verifying the $\frac{8}{33}$ Two-Qubit Hilbert-Schmidt Separability Probability and Companion Rational-Valued Conjectures},
  author = {Paul B. Slater},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.01973},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

59 pages, 29 figures, retitled, added App. A, presenting previously-obtained (arXiv:0805.0267) analogous ABSOLUTE separability probabilities