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Octonionic two-qubit separability probability conjectures

Quantum Physics 2016-12-12 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Probability

Abstract

We study, further, a conjectured formula for generalized two-qubit Hilbert-Schmidt separability probabilities that has recently been proven by Lovas and Andai (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.01410.pdf) for its real (two-rebit) asserted value (2964\frac{29}{64}), and that has also been very strongly supported numerically for its complex (833\frac{8}{33}), and quaternionic (26323\frac{26}{323}) counterparts. Now, we seek to test the presumptive octonionic value of 4448240913490.0108722\frac{44482}{4091349} \approx 0.0108722. We are somewhat encouraged by certain numerical computations, indicating that this (51-dimensional) instance of the conjecture might be fulfilled by setting a certain determinantal-power parameter aa, introduced by Forrester (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.08081.pdf), to 0 (or possibly near to 0). Hilbert-Schmidt measure being the case k=0k=0 of random induced measure, for k=1k=1, the corresponding octonionic separability probability conjecture is 76128462932133450.0259635\frac{7612846}{293213345} \approx 0.0259635, while for k=2k=2, it is 4893392950415670.0514869,\frac{4893392}{95041567} \approx 0.0514869, \ldots. The relation between the parameters aa and kk is explored.

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@article{arxiv.1612.02798,
  title  = {Octonionic two-qubit separability probability conjectures},
  author = {Paul B. Slater},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02798},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

8 pages. The formula for P_{2}(\alpha) needed--due to an oversight to be multiplied by 2 (as Charles Dunkl pointed out)

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