Bound Entanglement for Bipartite and Tripartite Quantum Systems

Chang‐shui Yu, X. X. Yi, H. S. Song

Palash Garhwal, Pranav Chandhok, Satyabrata Adhikari

Quantum coherence and quantum entanglement are two strong pillars in quantum information theory. We study here for the possibility of any connection between these two important aspects of quantum mechanics while studying the entanglement detection problem for the detection of bipartite higher dimensional entangled states and multipartite entangled states. To achieve our goal, we derive the lower bound $L$ of $l_{1}$ norm of coherence of bipartite qubit-qudit system using the criterion that detect entanglement. Furthermore, we deduce the upper bound $U$ of $l_{1}$ norm of coherence of separable bipartite qubit-qudit system using the separability criterion. Thus, we find that if any $l_{1}$ norm of coherence of bipartite qubit-qudit system is greater than the upper bound $U$ then the given qubit-qudit state is entangled. Finally, we obtained the upper bound $U_{1}$ of $l_{1}$ norm of coherence of separable tripartite state lies either in $2 \otimes d \otimes d$ or $d \otimes 2 \otimes d$ or $d \otimes d \otimes 2$ dimensional Hilbert space using the upper bound $U$. We have shown that if the $l_{1}$ norm of coherence of any tripartite $qubit-qudit-qudit$ or $qudit-qubit-qudit$ or $qudit-qudit-qubit$ system is greater than the derived upper bound $U_{1}$ then the given tripartite system represent an entangled state.

Fabio Benatti

Aldo Moro, Settore Scientifico, Disciplinare Fis +1 more

Charles H. Bennett, David Peter Divincenzo, Tal Mor +3 more

An unextendible product basis (UPB) for a multipartite quantum system is an incomplete orthogonal product basis whose complementary subspace contains no product state. We give examples of UPBs, and show that the uniform mixed state over the subspace complementary to any UPB is a bound entangled state. We exhibit a tripartite $2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}2$ UPB whose complementary mixed state has tripartite entanglement but no bipartite entanglement, i.e., all three corresponding $2\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}4$ bipartite mixed states are unentangled. We show that members of a UPB are not perfectly distinguishable by local positive operator valued measurements and classical communication.

Ashish V. Thapliyal

Two important subsets of tripartite pure states, namely {\\em triseparable} states (i.e. states such that the bipartite density matrices obtained by tracing out any party's subsystem are separable) and {\\em triorthogonal} states (i.e. states with a three-party Schmidt-like decomposition) are introduced. It is proved that any triseparable state is triorthogonal and vice-versa. The relevance of this result to quantifying tripartite pure-state entanglement is discussed. It is also proved that any purification of a bipartite bound entangled state with positive partial transpose is {\\em tri-inseparable}. This is a new necessary condition for such bound entanglement.