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Density Matrix Diagonal-Block Lovas-Andai-type singular-value ratios for qubit-qudit separability/PPT probability analyses

Quantum Physics 2021-07-01 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP Operator Algebras

Abstract

An important variable in the 2017 analysis of Lovas and Andai, formally establishing the Hilbert-Schmidt separability probability conjectured by Slater of 2964\frac{29}{64} for the 9-dimensional convex set of two-rebit density matrices, was the ratio (ε=σ2σ1\varepsilon =\frac{\sigma_2}{\sigma_1}) of the two singular values (σ1σ20\sigma_1 \geq \sigma_2 \geq 0) of D212D112D_2^{\frac{1}{2}} D_1^{-\frac{1}{2}}. There, D1D_1 and D2D_2 were the diagonal 2×22 \times 2 blocks of a 4×44 \times 4 two-rebit density matrix ρ\rho. Working within the Lovas-Andai "separability function" (χ~d(ε)\tilde{\chi}_d(\varepsilon)) framework, Slater was able to verify further conjectures of Hilbert-Schmidt separability probabilities of 833\frac{8}{33} and 26323\frac{26}{323} for the 15-dimensional and 26-dimensional convex sets of two-qubit and two-quater[nionic]-bit density matrices. Here, we investigate the behavior of the three singular value ratios of V=D212D112V=D_2^{\frac{1}{2}} D_1^{-\frac{1}{2}}, where now D1D_1 and D2D_2 are the 3×33 \times 3 diagonal blocks of 6×66 \times 6 rebit-retrit and qubit-qutrit density matrices randomly generated with respect to Hilbert-Schmidt measure. Further, we initiate a parallel study employing 8×88 \times 8 density matrices. The motivation for this analysis is the conjectured relevance of these singular values in suitably extending χ~d(ε)\tilde{\chi}_d(\varepsilon) to higher dimensional systems--an issue we also approach using certain novel numeric means. Section 3.3 of the 2017 A. Lovas doctoral dissertation (written in Hungarian) appears germane to such an investigation.

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@article{arxiv.2106.16104,
  title  = {Density Matrix Diagonal-Block Lovas-Andai-type singular-value ratios for qubit-qudit separability/PPT probability analyses},
  author = {Paul B. Slater},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.16104},
  year   = {2021}
}

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21 pages, 16 figures

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