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Moment-based PPT criteria for random bipartite states

Quantum Physics 2026-07-13 v1 Mathematical Physics Combinatorics Functional Analysis Probability

Abstract

Moment-based relaxations of the positive partial transpose (PPT) criterion have been recently introduced, as a hierarchy of entanglement criteria involving only experimentally accessible quantities of a given bipartite state. The goal of this work is to study their typical detection performance on high-dimensional bipartite systems. Concretely, we investigate whether random bipartite mixed states on CdCd\mathbb C^d\otimes\mathbb C^d, obtained as the marginal over an environment Cs\mathbb C^s of a uniformly distributed pure state, generically satisfy or violate them. For each fixed level mNm\in\mathbb N in this hierarchy of moment-based PPT criteria, we are able to identify a threshold environment dimension s=λmd2s=\lambda_md^2 at which the behavior of the associated random state switches from violating to satisfying it, with probability going to 11 as dd grows. The proof combines combinatorics of permutations techniques to estimate the average value of moments of partially transposed random states and concentration of measure arguments to bound the probability of deviating from such average, when the underlying local dimension dd is large. We additionally need tools from the theory of Hankel determinant evaluation via orthogonal polynomials.

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@article{arxiv.2607.11369,
  title  = {Moment-based PPT criteria for random bipartite states},
  author = {Cécilia Lancien and Kieran McShane},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.11369},
  year   = {2026}
}

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