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Universal separability criterion for arbitrary density matrices from causal properties of separable and entangled quantum states

Quantum Physics 2021-08-09 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

General physical background of Peres-Horodecki positive partial transpose (ppt-) separability criterion is revealed. Especially, the physical sense of partial transpose operation is shown to be equivalent to the "local causality reversal" (LCR-) procedure for all separable quantum systems or to the uncertainty in a global time arrow direction in all entangled cases. Using these universal causal considerations the heuristic causal separability criterion has been proposed for arbitrary DN×DN D^{N} \times D^{N} density matrices acting in HDN \mathcal{H}_{D}^{\otimes N} Hilbert spaces which describe the ensembles of N N quantum systems of D D eigenstates each. Resulting general formulas have been then analyzed for the widest special type of one-parametric density matrices of arbitrary dimensionality, which model equivalent quantum subsystems being equally connected (EC-) with each other by means of a single entnaglement parameter p p . In particular, for the family of such EC-density matrices it has been found that there exists a number of N N - and D D -dependent separability (or entanglement) thresholds pth(N,D) p_{th}(N,D) which in the case of a qubit-pair density matrix in H2H2 \mathcal{H}_{2} \otimes \mathcal{H}_{2} Hilbert space are shown to reduce to well-known results obtained earlier by Peres [5] and Horodecki [6]. As the result, a number of remarkable features of the entanglement thresholds for EC-density matrices has been described for the first time. All novel results being obtained for the family of arbitrary EC-density matrices are shown to be applicable for a wide range of both interacting and non-interacting multi-partite quantum systems, such as arrays of qubits, spin chains, ensembles of quantum oscillators, strongly correlated quantum many-body systems with the possibility of many-body localization, etc.

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@article{arxiv.2012.09428,
  title  = {Universal separability criterion for arbitrary density matrices from causal properties of separable and entangled quantum states},
  author = {Gleb A. Skorobagatko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.09428},
  year   = {2021}
}

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31 pages, 4 figures

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