Quantum Steering Ellipsoid Volume as a Measure on the Two-Qubit States and Associated Separability and Absolute Separability Ratios

arXiv2012.09152MaRDI QIDQ6356286FDOQ6356286

Authors: Paul B. Slater 

Publication date: 16 December 2020

Abstract: Employing the volume of quantum steering ellipsoids (QSEs) as a measure on the fifteen-dimensional convex set of two-qubit states, we estimate the ratio of the integral of the measure over the separable states to its integral over all (separable and entangled) states to be 0.0288. This can be contrasted with the considerably larger separability ratios (probabilities) of $frac833=frac{2}^{3}3cdot11approx0.242424$ and $frac25341=frac{5}^{2}11cdot31approx0.0733138$ that various forms of evidence point to with the use of the prominent Hilbert-Schmidt and Bures measures, respectively. The questions of whether the ratio in the QSE setting can be more precisely obtained or even exactly computed, as well as whether a metric can be constructed, the volume element of which yields the measure, remain to be addressed. We also investigate related issues pertaining to absolute separability. Further, we examine the behavior of the separability probability--constant in the Hilbert-Schmidt case and decreasing in the Bures--as a function of the Bloch vector norm in the QSE instance. It appears to increase approaching the pure state boundary.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random matrices (algebraic aspects) (15B52) Random matrices (probabilistic aspects) (60B20) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

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