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Quasirandom estimations of two-qubit operator-monotone-based separability probabilities

Quantum Physics 2021-12-20 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We conduct a pair of quasirandom estimations of the separability probabilities with respect to ten measures on the 15-dimensional convex set of two-qubit states, using its Euler-angle parameterization. The measures include the (non-monotone) Hilbert-Schmidt one, plus nine others based on operator monotone functions. Our results are supportive of previous assertions that the Hilbert-Schmidt and Bures (minimal monotone) separability probabilities are 8330.242424\frac{8}{33} \approx 0.242424 and 253410.0733138\frac{25}{341} \approx 0.0733138, respectively, as well as suggestive of the Wigner-Yanase counterpart being 120\frac{1}{20}. However, one result appears inconsistent (much too small) with an earlier claim of ours that the separability probability associated with the operator monotone (geometric-mean) function x\sqrt{x} is 125627π20.03932511-\frac{256}{27 \pi ^2} \approx 0.0393251. But a seeming explanation for this disparity is that the volume of states for the x\sqrt{x}-based measure is infinite. So, the validity of the earlier conjecture--as well as an alternative one, 19(59360π2)0.0915262\frac{1}{9} \left(593-60 \pi ^2\right) \approx 0.0915262, we now introduce--can not be examined through the numerical approach adopted, at least perhaps not without some truncation procedure for extreme values.

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@article{arxiv.1910.07937,
  title  = {Quasirandom estimations of two-qubit operator-monotone-based separability probabilities},
  author = {Paul B. Slater},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.07937},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

19 pages, 16 figures--text moderately expanded, but sample size in main analyses doubled in size. To appear in International Journal of Quantum Information

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