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Europhysics Letters (EPL)

A measure for maximum similarity between outcome states

Luis Roa, A. B. Klimov, Alejandra Maldonado-Trapp

Published Feb 1, 2015• 1 citation
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Abstract

We propose a measure to quantify correlations in a bipartite quantum system of two quibits by assessing the minimum difference between outcome states of a subsystem by performing a local measurement on the other subsystem. This maximum similarity measure is a monotone function of the concurrence for pure states of two qubits; for mixed states it accounts for entanglement, dissonance, and classical correlations. Besides, we found a closed formula for evaluating the similarity degree of an arbitrary mix state of two two-dimensional systems.

DOI
10.1209/0295-5075/109/40001

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We present a measure of quantum entanglement which is capable of quantifying the degree of entanglement of a multi-partite quantum system. This measure, which is based on a generalization of the Schmidt rank of a pure state, is defined on the full state space and is shown to be an entanglement monotone, that is, it cannot increase under local quantum operations with classical communication and under mixing. For a large class of mixed states this measure of entanglement can be calculated exactly, and it provides a detailed classification of mixed states. We also present a connection to the best separable approximation of an entangled state of a two-qubit system.
We propose a new approach to the problem of defining the degree of entanglement between two particles in a pure state with Hilbert spaces of arbitrary finite dimensions. The central idea is that entanglement gives rise to correlations between the particles that do not occur in separable states. We individuate the contributions of these correlations to the joint and the conditional probabilities of local measurements outcomes. We use these probabilities to define the measure of entanglement. Our measure turns out to be proportional to the so-called 2-entropy and therefore satisfies the properties required for any measure of entanglement. We conclude with an outlook on the problem of extending our approach to the case of multipartite systems and mixed states.
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Entanglement monotones, such as the concurrence, are useful tools to characterize quantum correlations in various physical systems. The computation of the concurrence involves, however, difficult optimizations and only for the simplest case of two qubits a closed formula was found by Wootters [Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2245 (1998)]. We show how this approach can be generalized, resulting in lower bounds on the concurrence for higher dimensional systems as well as for multipartite systems. We demonstrate that for certain families of states our results constitute the strongest bipartite entanglement criterion so far; moreover, they allow us to recognize novel families of multiparticle bound entangled states.
Based on a proposed coherence measure, we show that the local coherence of a bipartite quantum pure state (coherence of its reduced density matrix) is exactly the same as the minimal average coherence with all potential pure-state realizations under consideration. In particular, it is shown that bipartite concurrence of pure states just captures the maximal difference between local coherence and the average coherence of one subsystem induced by local operations on the other subsystem with the assistance of classical communications, which provides an alternative operational meaning for bipartite concurrence of pure states. The relation between concurrence and the proposed coherence measure can also be extended to bipartite mixed states.