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We present a general description of separable states in Quantum Mechanics. In particular, our result gives an easy proof that inseparabitity (or entanglement) is a pure quantum (noncommutative) notion. This implies that distinction between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adam W. Majewski

Nonseparability - multipartite states that cannot be factorized - is one of the most striking features of quantum mechanics, as it gives rise to entanglement and non-causal correlations. In quantum computing, it also contributes directly to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Mathieu Padlewski , Tim Tuuva , Benjamin Apffel , Hervé Lissek , Romain Fleury

The absolutely separable (resp. PPT) states remain separable (resp. positive partial transpose) under any global unitary operation. We present a compact form of the extreme points in the sets of absolutely separable states and PPT states in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Zhiwei Song , Lin Chen

The equivalence between absolutely separable states and absolutely positive partial transposed (PPT) states in general remains an open problem in quantum entanglement theory. In this work, we study an analogous question for symmetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Jonathan Louvet , Eduardo Serrano-Ensástiga , Thierry Bastin , John Martin

Entanglement is a powerful resource for processing quantum information. In this context pure, maximally entangled states have received considerable attention. In the case of bipartite qubit-systems the four orthonormal Bell-states are of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 I. Jex , G. Alber , S. M. Barnett , A. Delgado

We discuss the concept of how entanglement changes with respect to different factorizations of the total algebra which describes the quantum states. Depending on the considered factorization a quantum state appears either entangled or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Walter Thirring , Reinhold A. Bertlmann , Philipp Köhler , Heide Narnhofer

We study the possibility for a global unitary applied on an arbitrary number of qubits to be decomposed in a sequential unitary procedure, where an ancillary system is allowed to interact only once with each qubit. We prove that sequential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Lamata , J. Leon , D. Perez-Garcia , D. Salgado , E. Solano

A remarkable feature of quantum entanglement is that an entangled state of two parties, Alice (A) and Bob (B), may be more disordered locally than globally. That is, S(A) > S(A,B), where S(.) is the von Neumann entropy. It is known that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. A. Nielsen , J. Kempe

Absolutely separable states form a special subset of the set of all separable states, as they remain separable under any global unitary transformation unlike other separable states. In this work we consider the set of absolutely separable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Nirman Ganguly , Jyotishman Chatterjee , A. S. Majumdar

Fully entangled fraction (FEF) is a significant figure of merit for density matrices. In bipartite $ d \otimes d $ quantum systems, the threshold value FEF $ > 1/d $, carries significant implications for quantum information processing…

We consider finite macroscopic systems, i.e., systems of large but finite degrees of freedom, which we believe are poorly understood as compared with small systems and infinite systems. We focus on pure states that do not have the `cluster…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Akira Shimizu , Takayuki Miyadera , Akihisa Ukena

The separability and entanglement of quantum mixed states in $\Cb^2 \otimes \Cb^3 \otimes \Cb^N$ composite quantum systems are investigated. It is shown that all quantum states $\rho$ with positive partial transposes and rank $r(\rho)\leq…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. M. Fei , X. H. Gao , X. H. Wang , Z. X. Wang , K. Wu

Steerability is a characteristic nonlocal trait of quantum states lying in between entanglement and Bell nonlocality. A given quantum state is considered to be steerable if it violates a suitably chosen steering inequality. A quantum state…

The concept of entanglement and separability of quantum states is relevant for several fields in physics. Still, there is a lack of effective operational methods to characterise these features. We propose a method to certify quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Ties-A. Ohst , Xiao-Dong Yu , Otfried Gühne , H. Chau Nguyen

Quite recently, Cai et al. [arXiv:2006.07165v1] proposed a new concept "absolutely entangled set" for bipartite quantum systems: for any possible choice of global basis, at least one state of the set is entangled. There they presented a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Mao-Sheng Li , Man-Hong Yung

Assume that Alice, Bob, and Charlie share a tripartite pure state $|\psi_{ABC}\rangle$. We prove that if Alice cannot distill entanglement with either Bob or Charlie using $|\psi_{ABC}\rangle$ and local operations with any one of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Satvik Singh , Nilanjana Datta

We introduce a class of states of a composite quantum system, the so-called cross states, that turn out to play a major role in the theory of entanglement for a genuinely infinite-dimensional bipartite system. In the case where at least one…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Paolo Aniello

In quantum systems, entanglement corresponds to nonclassical correlation of nonlocal observables. Thus, entanglement (or, to the contrary, separability) of a given quantum state is not uniquely determined by properties of the state, but may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 Iacopo Pozzana

It is nowadays accepted that truly quantum correlations can exist even in the absence of entanglement. For the case of symmetric states, a physically trivial unitary transformation can alter a quantum state from entangled to separable and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-24 Aaron Z. Goldberg , Markus Grassl , Gerd Leuchs , Luis L. Sánchez-Soto

Complex numbers are central to the formulation of quantum mechanics, yet their role as a genuine resource is only beginning to be understood. In this work, we demonstrate that quantum states with intrinsically complex amplitudes provide a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Subrata Bera , Indranil Biswas , Atanu Bhunia , Indrani Chattopadhyay , Debasis Sarkar