Characterizing the relations among the three bipartite reduced density operators$ \rho _{AB}
, \rho _{AC}
and \rho _{BC}
ofatripartitemixedstate \rho _{ABC}
hasbeenanopenprobleminquantuminformation.Oneofsuchrelationshasbeenreducedby[Cadneyetal,LAA.452,153,2014]toaconjecturedinequalityintermsofmatrixrank,namelyr(\rho _{AB}) \cdot r( \rho _{AC})\ge r( \rho _{BC})
forany \rho _{ABC}$. It is denoted as open problem 41 in the website “Open quantum problems-IQOQI Vienna”. We prove the inequality, and thus establish a complete picture of the four-party linear inequalities in terms of the 0-entropy. Our proof is based on the construction of a novel canonical form of bipartite matrices under local equivalence. We extend our result to inequalities in multipartite systems, as well as the condition when the inequality is saturated.
We find that the hyperdeterminant
DetA, related to an entanglement measure (the concurrence, 3-tangle for the 2,3-qubit respectively), is derived from a duality between the entangled states and separable states. In terms of
DetA and its singularities, the single copy of multipartite pure entangled states is classified into an onion structure of every closed subset, similarly to the local rank in the bipartite case. This reveals that many inequivalent multipartite entangled states are partially ordered such that entanglement measures like
DetA as well as local ranks are needed to distinguish them. In particular, the nonzero
DetA distinguishes generic entangled states of the maximal dimension (the outermost class of the onion structure). It suggests that the majority of multipartite entangled states never locally converts to the maximally entangled states in Bell's inequalities even probabilistically in general (e.g., in the
ngeq4-qubit), contrary to the widely known bipartite or 3-qubit cases. The classification is also useful for that of mixed states.
Entanglement entropies of multipartite pure states satisfy linear inequalities; for stabilizer states, the backbone of quantum error correction, the achievable entropy vectors generate a convex cone. We show that, after a linear lift, the closure of this cone is exactly the self-dual slice of a classical object on one more element than there are parties: the closed cone generated by the rank functions of arrangements of subspaces over
GF(d) for a prime local dimension
d, and of subgroups of abelian groups of exponent dividing
d in general. This correspondence brings two features of rank inequalities into play. First, the purifier acts as an extra variable: already for five parties the stabilizer cone is strictly smaller than the quantum linear rank cone, with which earlier evidence suggested it might coincide; an explicit six-variable inequality witnesses the gap. Second, the characteristic of the field enters, so the cone depends on the local dimension. It does not for up to four parties. With enough parties, the cone of
Zd qudits is contained in that of
Zd′ qudits if and only if
d divides
d′, and already for six parties the logical zero state of Steane's code lies outside the stabilizer cone of every odd local dimension. For this last result we show that the seven-variable characteristic-dependent inequalities we checked all follow from Shannon inequalities on the self-dual slice, and instead transfer one of them through a family of subgroups derived from the Fano plane.
We propose a family of Hardy-type tests for an arbitrary n-partite system, which can detect different degrees of non-locality ranging from standard to genuine multipartite non-locality. For any non-signaling m-local hidden variable model, the corresponding tests fail, whereas a pass of this type of test indicates that this state is m non-local. We show that any entangled generalized GHZ state exhibits Hardy’s non-locality for each rank of multipartite non-locality. Furthermore, for the detection of m non-localities, a family of Bell-type inequalities based on our test is constructed. Numerical results show that it is more efficient than the inequalities proposed in [Phys. Rev. A 94 022110 (2016)].