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Two-Qubit Separability Probabilities as Joint Functions of the Bloch Radii of the Qubit Subsystems

Quantum Physics 2016-12-30 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Applications

Abstract

We detect a certain pattern of behavior of separability probabilities p(rA,rB)p(r_A,r_B) for two-qubit systems endowed with Hilbert-Schmidt, and more generally, random induced measures, where rAr_A and rBr_B are the Bloch radii (0rA,rB10 \leq r_A,r_B \leq 1) of the qubit reduced states (A,BA,B). We observe a relative repulsion of radii effect, that is p(rA,rA)<p(rA,1rA)p(r_A,r_A) < p(r_A,1-r_A), except for rather narrow "crossover" intervals [r~A,12][\tilde{r}_A,\frac{1}{2}]. Among the seven specific cases we study are, firstly, the "toy" seven-dimensional XX-states model and, then, the fifteen-dimensional two-qubit states obtained by tracing over the pure states in 4×K4 \times K-dimensions, for K=3,4,5K=3, 4, 5, with K=4K=4 corresponding to Hilbert-Schmidt (flat/Euclidean) measure. We also examine the real (two-rebit) K=4K=4, the XX-states K=5K=5, and Bures (minimal monotone)--for which no nontrivial crossover behavior is observed--instances. In the two XX-states cases, we derive analytical results, for K=3,4K=3, 4, we propose formulas that well-fit our numerical results, and for the other scenarios, rely presently upon large numerical analyses. The separability probability crossover regions found expand in length (lower r~A\tilde{r}_A) as KK increases. This report continues our efforts (arXiv:1506.08739) to extend the recent work of Milz and Strunz (J. Phys. A: 48 [2015] 035306) from a univariate (rAr_A) framework---in which they found separability probabilities to hold constant with rAr_A---to a bivariate (rA,rBr_A,r_B) one. We also analyze the two-qutrit and qubit-qutrit counterparts reported in arXiv:1512.07210 in this context, and study two-qubit separability probabilities of the form p(rA,12)p(r_A,\frac{1}{2}).

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@article{arxiv.1605.06459,
  title  = {Two-Qubit Separability Probabilities as Joint Functions of the Bloch Radii of the Qubit Subsystems},
  author = {Paul B. Slater},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.06459},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

24 pages, 17 figures--revised--to appear in International Journal of Quantum Information