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Physical Review A

Reduction criterion of separability and limits for a class of distillation protocols

Michał Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki

Published Jun 1, 1999• 901 citations
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Abstract

We analyze the problem of distillation of entanglement of mixed states in higher-dimensional compound systems. Employing the positive maps method [M. Horodecki et al., Phys. Lett. A 223, 1 (1996)] we introduce and analyze a criterion of separability that relates the structures of the total density matrix and its reductions. We show that any state violating the criterion can be distilled by suitable generalization of the two-qubit protocol that distills any inseparable two-qubit state. In particular, this means that any state $\ensuremath{\varrho}$ of two N-level systems with $〈{\ensuremath{\psi}}_{+}|\ensuremath{\varrho}|{\ensuremath{\psi}}_{+}〉>1/N$ can be distilled $({\ensuremath{\psi}}_{+}$ is the singlet state generalized to higher dimension). The criterion also singles out all the states that can be distilled by a class of protocols. The proof involves construction of the family of states that are invariant under transformation $\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{\ensuremath{\varrho}}U\ensuremath{\bigotimes}{U}^{*}\ensuremath{\varrho}{U}^{\ifmmode\dagger\else\textdagger\fi{}}\ensuremath{\bigotimes}{U}^{*\ifmmode\dagger\else\textdagger\fi{}},$ where U is a unitary transformation and the asterisk denotes complex conjugation. The states are related to the depolarizing channel generalized to the nonbinary case.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.59.4206

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We analyse the problem of distillation of entanglement of mixed states in higher dimensional compound systems. Employing the positive maps method [M. Horodecki et al., Phys. Lett. A 223 1 (1996)] we introduce and analyse a criterion of separability which relates the structures of the total density matrix and its reductions. We show that any state violating the criterion can be distilled by suitable generalization of the two-qubit protocol which distills any inseparable two-qubit state. Conversely, all the states which can be distilled by such a protocol must violate the criterion. The proof involves construction of the family of states which are invariant under transformation ϱ→U⊗U∗ϱU†⊗U∗†\varrho\to U\otimes U^*\varrho U^\dagger\otimes U^{*\dagger}ϱ→U⊗U∗ϱU†⊗U∗† where UUU is a unitary transformation and star denotes complex conjugation. The states are related to the depolarizing channel generalized to non-binary case.
A necessary separability criterion that relates the structures of the total density matrix and its reductions is given. The method used is based on the realignment method [K. Chen and L. A. Wu, Quant. Inf. Comput. 3, 193 (2003)]. The separability criterion naturally generalizes the reduction separability criterion introduced independently in the previous work [M. Horodecki and P. Horodecki, Phys. Rev. A 59, 4206 (1999) and N. J. Cerf, C. Adami, and R. M. Gingrich, Phys. Rev. A 60, 898 (1999)]. In special cases, it recovers the previous reduction criterion and the recent generalized partial transposition criterion [K. Chen and L. A. Wu, Phys. Lett. A 306, 14 (2002)]. The criterion involves only simple matrix manipulations and can therefore be easily applied.
The reduction criterion is a well-known necessary condition for separable states, and states violating this condition are entangled and also 1-distillable. In this paper we introduce a set of necessary conditions for separability of multipartite states, obtained from a set of positive but not completely positive maps. These conditions can be thought of as generalizations of the reduction criterion to multipartite systems. We use tripartite Werner states as an example to investigate the entanglement detecting powers of some of these conditions, and we also look at what these conditions mean in terms of distillation. Finally, we show that these maps can be used to give a partial solution to the subsystem problem, as described by Butterley et al.
We introduce a separability criterion based on the positive map $\ensuremath{\Gamma}:\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{\ensuremath{\rho}}(\mathrm{Tr}\ensuremath{\rho})\ensuremath{-}\ensuremath{\rho},$ where $\ensuremath{\rho}$ is a trace-class Hermitian operator. Any separable state is mapped by the tensor product of $\ensuremath{\Gamma}$ and the identity into a non-negative operator, which provides a simple necessary condition for separability. This condition is generally not sufficient because it is vulnerable to the dilution of entanglement. In the special case where one subsystem is a quantum bit, $\ensuremath{\Gamma}$ reduces to time reversal, so that this separability condition is equivalent to partial transposition. It is therefore also sufficient for $2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}2$ and $2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}3$ systems. Finally, a simple connection between this map for two qubits and complex conjugation in the ``magic'' basis [Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 5022 (1997)] is displayed.