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Qubit-portraits of qudit states and quantum correlations

Quantum Physics 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

The machinery of qubit-portraits of qudit states, recently presented, is consider here in more details in order to characterize the presence of quantum correlations in bipartite qudit states. In the tomographic representation of quantum mechanics, Bell-like inequalities are interpreted as peculiar properties of a family of classical joint probability distributions which describe the quantum state of two qudits. By means of the qubit-portraits machinery a semigroup of stochastic matrices can be associated to a given quantum state. The violation of the CHSH inequalities is discussed in this framework with some examples, we found that quantum correlations in qutrit isotropic states can be detected by the suggested method while it cannot in the case of qutrit Werner states.

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@article{arxiv.0705.2405,
  title  = {Qubit-portraits of qudit states and quantum correlations},
  author = {C. Lupo and V. I. Man'ko and G. Marmo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.2405},
  year   = {2008}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures