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We give a constructive proof that all mixed states of N qubits in a sufficiently small neighborhood of the maximally mixed state are separable. The construction provides an explicit representation of any such state as a mixture of product…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. L. Braunstein , C. M. Caves , R. Jozsa , N. Linden , S. Popescu , R. Schack

The Separability Problem is approached from the perspective of Ellipsoidal Classification. A Density Operator of dimension N can be represented as a vector in a real vector space of dimension $N^{2}- 1$, whose components are the projections…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David A. Herrera-Martí

We address the problem of unambiguous discrimination among a given set of quantum operations. The necessary and sufficient condition for them to be unambiguously distinguishable is derived in the cases of single use and multiple uses…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Guoming Wang , Mingsheng Ying

Quantum entanglement is the core resource in quantum information processing and quantum computing. It is an significant challenge to effectively characterize the entanglement of quantum states. Recently, elegant separability criterion is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Tinggui Zhang , Naihuan Jing , Shao-Ming Fei

A multimode uncertainty relation (generalising the Robertson-Schroedinger relation) is derived as a necessary constraint on the second moments of n pairs of canonical operators. In turn, necessary conditions for the separability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Serafini

We introduce algebraic sets in the products of complex projective spaces for the mixed states in multipartite quantum systems as their invariants under local unitary operations. The algebraic sets have to be the union of the linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hao Chen

We present a review of the problem of finding out whether a quantum state of two or more parties is entangled or separable. After a formal definition of entangled states, we present a few criteria for identifying entangled states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Sreetama Das , Titas Chanda , Maciej Lewenstein , Anna Sanpera , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

Presence of correlations among the constituent quantum systems has a great relevance in thermodynamics. Significant efforts have been devoted to investigate the role of correlations in work extraction, among others. Here, we derive a bound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Mir Alimuddin , Tamal Guha , Preeti Parashar

Entanglement is sometimes helpful in distinguishing between quantum operations, as differences between quantum operations can become magnified when their inputs are entangled with auxiliary systems. Bounds on the dimension of the auxiliary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-18 John Watrous

We investigate the separability of quantum states based on covariance matrices. Separability criteria are presented for multipartite states. The lower bound of concurrence proposed in Phys. Rev. A. 75, 052320 (2007) is improved by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Ming Li , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

We consider the separability of various joint states of D-dimensional quantum systems, which we call "qudits." We derive two main results: (i) the separability condition for a two-qudit state that is a mixture of the maximally mixed state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 P. Rungta , W. J. Munro , K. Nemoto , P. Deuar , G. J. Milburn , C. M. Caves

In early days of quantum theory it was believed that the results of measurements performed on two distant physical systems should be uncorrelated thus their quantum state should be separable it means described by a simple tensor product of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-26 Marian Kupczynski

We propose experimentally feasible separability criteria for bipartite systems based on local symmetric measurements. Through detailed examples, we demonstrate that our criteria can detect entanglement more effectively compared to existing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Yu Lu , Wen Zhou , Meng Su , Hong-Xing Wu , Shao-Ming Fei , Zhi-Xi Wang

Many protocols of quantum information processing use entangled states. Hence, separability criteria are of great importance. We propose new separability conditions for a bipartite finite-dimensional system. They are derived by using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-23 Alexey E. Rastegin

We investigate classification and detection of entanglement of multipartite quantum states in a very general setting, and obtain efficient $k$-separability criteria for mixed multipartite states in arbitrary dimensional quantum systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Ting Gao , Yan Hong , Yao Lu , Fengli Yan

Quantum state discrimination is a fundamental concept in quantum information theory, which refers to a class of techniques to identify a specific quantum state through a positive operator-valued measure. In this work, we investigate how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Hyunho Cha , Jungwoo Lee

We introduce new entanglement measures on the set of density operators on tensor product Hilbert spaces. These measures are based on the greatest cross norm on the tensor product of the sets of trace class operators on Hilbert space. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Oliver Rudolph

To determine whether a given multipartite quantum state is separable with respect to some partition we construct a family of entanglement measures R_m. This is done utilizing generalized concurrences as building blocks which are defined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-06 Tsubasa Ichikawa , Marcus Huber , Philipp Krammer , Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

We propose in this work a practical approach to address the longstanding and challenging problem of quantum separability, leveraging the correlation matrices of generic observables. General separability conditions are obtained by dint of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 Ma-Cheng Yang , Cong-Feng Qiao

In this article, we study the problem of comparing mixed quantum states: given $n$ unknown mixed quantum states, can one determine whether they are identical or not with an unambiguous quantum measurement? We first study universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Shengshi Pang , Shengjun Wu