Master Lovas-Andai and Equivalent Formulas Verifying the $\frac{8}{33}$ Two-Qubit Hilbert-Schmidt Separability Probability and Companion Rational-Valued Conjectures
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 is the ratio of the singular values of the matrix formed from the two diagonal blocks () of a density matrix . In the Slater setting, the independent variable is the diagonal-entry ratio --with, of central importance, or when both and are themselves diagonal. Lovas and Andai established that their two-rebit "separability function" () yields the previously conjectured Hilbert-Schmidt separability probability of . 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 ), two-quater[nionic]-bit (yielding ) and "two-octo[nionic]-bit" (yielding ) counterparts. Then, we find a Lovas-Andai "master formula", encompassing both even and odd values of . 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