Length filtration of the separable states

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2016.0350MaRDI QIDQ5363692zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Lin Chen, Dragomir Ž. Đoković

Publication date 29 September 2017

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05278

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coherent states (81R30)

Abstract: We investigate the separable states ${\displaystyle }$ of an arbitrary multipartite quantum system with Hilbert space $cH$ of dimensionin $d$. The length $L()$ of ${\displaystyle }$ is defined as the smallest number of pure product states having ${\displaystyle }$ as their mixture. The length filtration of the set of separable states, $cS$, is the increasing chain $emptysetsubsetcS{\text{'}}_{1}subseteqcS{\text{'}}_{2}subseteqcdots$, where $cS{\text{'}}_i=incS:L()lei$. We define the maximum length, $L_{mmax}=ma{x}_{incS}L()$, critical length, $L_{mcrit}$, and yet another special length, $L_c$, which was defined by a simple formula in one of our previous papers. The critical length indicates the first term in the length filtrartion whose dimension is equal to $dimcS$. We show that in general $dle{L}_{c}le{L}_{mcrit}le{L}_{mmax}le{d}^2$. We conjecture that the equality $L_{mcrit}=L_c$ holds for all finite-dimensional multipartite quantum systems. Our main result is that $L_{mcrit}=L_c$ for the bipartite systems having a single qubit as one of the parties. This is accomplished by computing the rank of the Jacobian matrix of a suitable map having $cS$ as its range.

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