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arXiv:2512.14566

From vanishing pairwise entanglement to global separability:Entanglement structure and measures in the W subspace

Reza Hamzehofi

quant-phSubmitted Dec 16, 2025• Announced Dec 17, 2025• 0 citations• Revised Aug 15, 2026 (v2)
v1 · Dec 16, 2025v2 · Aug 15, 2026
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Abstract

The $W$ subspace is defined as the subspace of the $n$-qubit Hilbert space spanned by states containing at most one excitation. In this work, a separability criterion is established for pure and mixed states supported in this subspace: if all reduced two-qubit subsystems are separable, then the entire $n$-qubit state is necessarily separable. This result motivates the identification of the sum of two-tangles as an entanglement measure for pure states supported in the $W$ subspace. Furthermore, it is shown that the commonly used $π$-tangle becomes ineffective for the $n$-qubit $W$ state as the system size increases, and vanishes in the large-$n$ limit. To address this limitation, the sum of $π$-tangles is introduced, which, like the sum of two-tangles, successfully quantifies the entanglement of the $n$-qubit $W$ state in the large-$n$ limit. In addition, a new condition for entanglement measures is introduced, which facilitates the formulation of a well-behaved and physically meaningful entanglement measure.

Journal reference
Phys. Rev. A 114, 042425 (2026)
DOI
10.1103/qznr-1gpr

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In this thesis, we discuss several aspects of the characterization of entanglement in multipartite quantum systems, including detection, classification and quantification of entanglement. First, we discuss triqubit pure entanglement and propose a special true tripartite entanglement, the mixed entanglement, besides the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) entanglement and the W entanglement. Then, based on quantitative complementarity relations, we draw entanglement Venn diagrams for triqubit pure states with different entanglements and introduce the total tangle Tau sup(T) to quantify total entanglement of triqubit pure states by defining the union I that is equivalent to the total tangle Tau sup(T) from the mathematical point of view. The generalizations of entanglement Venn diagrams and the union I to N-qubit pure states are also discussed. Finally, based on the ranks of reduced density matrices, we discuss the separability of multiparticle arbitrary -dimensional pure and mixed states, respectively.
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