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Truncated moment sequences and a solution to the channel separability problem

Quantum Physics 2020-11-11 v1

Abstract

We consider the problem of separability of quantum channels via the Choi matrix representation given by the Choi-Jamio{\l}kowski isomorphism. We explore three classes of separability across different cuts between systems and ancillae and we provide a solution based on the mapping of the coordinates of the Choi state (in a fixed basis) to a truncated moment sequence (tms) yy. This results in an algorithm which gives a separability certificate using semidefinite programming. The computational complexity and the performance of it depend on the number of variables nn in the tms and on the size of the moment matrix Mt(y)M_t(y) of order tt. We exploit the algorithm to numerically investigate separability of families of 2-qubit and single-qutrit channels; in the latter case we can provide an answer for examples explored earlier through the criterion based on the negativity NN, a criterion which remains inconclusive for Choi matrices with N=0N=0.

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@article{arxiv.2006.15003,
  title  = {Truncated moment sequences and a solution to the channel separability problem},
  author = {Nadia Milazzo and Daniel Braun and Olivier Giraud},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.15003},
  year   = {2020}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures

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