Checking the optimality of entanglement witnesses: an application to structural physical approximations

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/47/6/065301zbMATH Open1285.81006arXiv1304.2040OpenAlexW2005728534WikidataQ59443959 ScholiaQ59443959MaRDI QIDQ5404776FDOQ5404776

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Publication date: 28 March 2014

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In 2008, the conjecture that structural physical approximations to optimal entanglement witnesses are separable states (in general unnormalized) was posed. In an attempt to disprove it, in [K.-C. Ha and S.-H. Kye, Separable states with unique decompositions, arXiv:1210.1088v3], Ha and Kye proposed a decomposable entanglement witness whose SPA is entangled and argued that it is optimal. In this note, which is based on a comment to the latter work [R. Augusiak et al., Comment on "Separable states with unique decompositions", arXiv:1304.2040v1], we show, both analytically and numerically, that this entanglement witness is not optimal, and as such it is not a counterexample to the conjecture. To this end, we make use of a method for checking optimality of entanglement witnesses developed already in [M. Lewenstein et al., Phys. Rev. A 62, 052310 (2000)], however, hardly exploited so far in the literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.2040

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zbMATH Keywords

separabilityentanglement witnesspositive mapstructural physical approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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