Smallest state spaces for which bipartite entangled quantum states are separable

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/17/9/093047MaRDI QIDQ5136116zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hussain Anwar, Sania Jevtic, Oliver Rudolph, S. Virmani

Publication date 25 November 2020

Published in New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5907

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Entanglement measures, concurrencies, separability criteria (81P42)

Abstract: According to usual definitions, entangled states cannot be given a separable decomposition in terms of products of local density operators. If we relax the requirement that the local density operators be positive, then an entangled quantum state may admit a separable decomposition in terms of more general sets of single-system operators. This form of separability can be used to construct classical models and simulation methods when only restricted set of measurements are available. With such motivations in mind, we ask what are the smallest such sets of local operators such that a pure bipartite entangled quantum state becomes separable? We find that in the case of maximally entangled states there are many inequivalent solutions, including for example the sets of phase point operators that arise in the study of discrete Wigner functions. We therefore provide a new way of interpreting these operators, and more generally, provide an alternative method for constructing local hidden variable models for entangled quantum states under subsets of quantum measurements.

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