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Sharp Plucker Geometry for Three-Copy Werner Distillation

Quantum Physics 2026-07-31 v1

Abstract

Whether negative-partial-transpose entanglement can remain undistillable is a longstanding problem in quantum information theory. We analyze the first unresolved three-copy Werner endpoint using a sharp dimension-free inequality for complementary partial traces and an optimal exterior-square inequality for orthonormal tripartite vectors. The latter identifies local SWAP- parity statistics with metric data of a decomposable Plucker bivector. Together these inequalities prove endpoint nonnegativity for every positive semidefinite rank-two coefficient operator and for the complete normal rank-two sector in arbitrary finite local dimensions. For genuinely nonnormal operators, an exact crossed-Gram criterion proves nonnegativity when one local outpu-input support overlap is at most two, including every system with a qubit-sized factor, and when either support plane contains a product ray. Explicit anti-state and rank-boundary families establish optimality of the constants and the rank restriction.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2608.02647,
  title  = {Sharp Plucker Geometry for Three-Copy Werner Distillation},
  author = {Tianhao Wu and Qiran Zou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2608.02647},
  year   = {2026}
}