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There is no direct generalization of positive partial transpose criterion to the three-by-three case

Mathematical Physics 2016-12-21 v1 math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

We show that there cannot exist a straightforward generalization of the famous positive partial transpose criterion to three-by-three systems. We call straightforward generalizations that use a finite set of positive maps and arbitrary local rotations of the tested two-partite state. In particular, we show that a family of extreme positive maps discussed in a paper by Ha and Kye, cannot be replaced by a finite set of witnesses in the task of entanglement detection in three-by-three systems. In a more mathematically elegant parlance, our result says that the convex cone of positive maps of the set of three-dimensional matrices into itself is not finitely generated as a mapping cone

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@article{arxiv.1605.05254,
  title  = {There is no direct generalization of positive partial transpose criterion to the three-by-three case},
  author = {Łukasz Skowronek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.05254},
  year   = {2016}
}

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12 pages