We search a simplest and minimal way to determine whether a given quantum system is entangled or separable. For this end, we propose binary correlation measurements in which restricted knowledge of only zero or non-zero correlations is available. We consider the concrete investigation on a pure state for two particles, each particle having two basis states (the 2x2 system). We show that, even with this limited information from the binary correlation measurements, we can still reach the known minimum of three measurements for entanglement detection. We next consider the comparable problem applied to the mixed density matrix. The mixed quantum case appears to require more detailed information, which we illustrate by studying the concrete example of the Werner density matrix.
We search a simplest and minimal way to determine whether a given quantum system is entangled or separable. For this end, we propose binary correlation measurements in which restricted knowledge of only zero or non-zero correlations is available. We consider the concrete investigation on a pure state for two particles, each particle having two basis states (the 2x2 system). We show that, even with this limited information from the binary correlation measurements, we can still reach the known minimum of three measurements for entanglement detection. We next consider the comparable problem applied to the mixed density matrix. The mixed quantum case appears to require more detailed information, which we illustrate by studying the concrete example of the Werner density matrix.
We search a simplest and minimal way to determine whether a given quantum system is entangled or separable. For this end, we propose binary correlation measurements in which restricted knowledge of only zero or nonzero correlations is available. We consider the concrete investigation on a pure state for two particles, each particle having two basis states (the [Formula: see text] system). We show that, even with this limited information from the binary correlation measurements, we can still reach the known minimum of three measurements for entanglement detection. We next consider the comparable problem applied to the mixed density matrix. The mixed quantum case appears to require more detailed information, which we illustrate by studying the concrete example of the Werner density matrix.
We propose a problem: to find the minimum number of correlation function measurements that are required to determine whether a given quantum system is entangled or separable. In particular, the case when restricted knowledge of only zero or non-zero correlations is available is examined. Through the concrete investigation on a pure state for two particles, each particle having two basis states (the 2x2 system), we show that the minimum number of measurements for entanglement detection with certainty is three. This involves four quantum observables. We next consider the comparable problem applied to the mixed density matrix. The mixed quantum state case appears to require more detailed information, which we illustrate by studying the concrete example of the Werner state.
Entanglement, and quantum correlation, are precious resources for quantum technologies implementation based on quantum information science, such as quantum communication, quantum computing, and quantum interferometry. Nevertheless, to our best knowledge, a directly or numerically computable measure for the entanglement of multipartite mixed states is still lacking. In this work, (i) we derive a measure of the degree of quantum correlation for mixed multipartite states. The latter possesses a closed-form expression valid in the general case unlike, to our best knowledge, all other known measures of quantum correlation. (ii) We further propose an entanglement measure, derived from this quantum correlation measure using a novel regularization procedure for the density matrix. Therefore, a comparison of the proposed measures, of quantum correlation and entanglement, allows one to distinguish between quantum correlation detached from entanglement and the one induced by entanglement and, hence, to identify separable but non-classical states. We have tested our quantum correlation and entanglement measures, on states well-known in literature: a general Bell diagonal state and the Werner states, which are easily tractable with our regularization procedure, and we have verified the accordance between our measures and the expected results for these states. Finally, we validate the two measures in two cases of multipartite states. The first is a generalization to three qubits of the Werner state, the second is a one-parameter three qubits mixed state interpolating between a bi-separable state and a genuine multipartite state, passing through a fully separable state.
Measuring entanglement is an essential step in a wide range of applied and foundational quantum experiments. When a two-particle quantum state is not pure, standard methods to measure the entanglement require detection of both particles. We realize a conceptually new method for verifying and measuring entanglement in a class of two-part (bipartite) mixed states. Contrary to the approaches known to date, in our experiment we verify and measure entanglement in mixed quantum bipartite states by detecting only one subsystem, the other remains undetected. Only one copy of the mixed or pure state is used but that state is in a superposition of having been created in two identical sources. We show that information shared in entangled systems can be accessed through single-particle interference patterns. Our experiment enables entanglement characterization even when one of the subsystems cannot be detected, for example, when suitable detectors are not available.
In the past decades, quantum entanglement has been recognized to be the basic resource in quantum information theory. A fundamental need is then the understanding its qualification and its quantification: Is the quantum state entangled, and if it is, then how much entanglement is carried by that? These questions introduce the topics of separability criteria and entanglement measures, both of which are based on the issue of classification of multipartite entanglement. In this dissertation, after reviewing these three fundamental topics for finite dimensional Hilbert spaces, I present my contribution to knowledge. My main result is the elaboration of the partial separability classification of mixed states of quantum systems composed of arbitrary number of subsystems of Hilbert spaces of arbitrary dimensions. This problem is simple for pure states, however, for mixed states it has not been considered in full detail yet. I give not only the classification but also necessary and sufficient criteria for the classes, which make it possible to determine to which class a mixed state belongs. Moreover, these criteria are given by the vanishing of quantities measuring entanglement. Apart from these, I present some side results related to the entanglement of mixed states. These results are obtained in the learning phase of my studies and give some illustrations and examples.
Entanglement is the resource that most sharply distinguishes quantum information processing from its classical counterpart, and this thesis examines it from two complementary directions: how it can be detected and quantified, and how it, together with the broader machinery of quantum correlations, interference, and measurement, can be put to use. We first study two simple, measurable conditions that detect bipartite entanglement, and show that the extent to which either is violated yields a lower bound on the negativity of a state. The bound is established for two qubits, extended to systems of arbitrary finite dimension, and sharpened when partial knowledge of the Schmidt vectors is available. We then turn to discrete-outcome quantum sensor networks, in which one seeks only to determine which detectors, or which group or spatial pattern of detectors, has responded to a signal. Working in the weak-interaction regime, where the output states are nonorthogonal, we use minimum-error and unambiguous state discrimination to show that entangled initial states and collective measurements confer an advantage when detectors are grouped, and we develop a shift-operator formalism that gives closed-form success probabilities for the detection of shifted patterns in one- and two-dimensional arrays. Next we consider the problem of learning two unknown pure qubit states, together with their probabilities of occurrence, from a scrambled stream; we show that receiving the systems in identically prepared pairs supplies exactly the extra quantum information needed, since the resulting two-qubit state in the symmetric subspace has a unique decomposition into pure product states, which we recover by tomography. Finally, we show how interference and measurement can convert information encoded in the phases of quantum amplitudes into information encoded in their magnitudes, amplifying the amplitudes that carry useful information and suppressing those that do not, and we apply this technique to states produced by the quantum approximate optimization algorithm for the MaxCut and minimum-vertex-cover problems. Throughout, a single theme recurs: the correlations and superpositions permitted by quantum mechanics are at once something to be measured and something to be exploited.