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Universal causal separability criterion for density matrices: from ensembles of qubits and quantum oscillators to quantum many-body systems

Gleb A. Skorobagatko

Published Dec 17, 2020• 0 citations
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General physical background of Peres-Horodecki positive partial transpose (ppt-) separability criterion is revealed. Especially, the physical sense of partial transpose operation is shown to be equivalent to the local causality reversal (LCR-) procedure for all separable quantum systems or to the uncertainty in a global time arrow direction in all entangled cases. Using these universal causal considerations the heuristic causal separability criterion has been proposed for arbitrary $ D^{N} \times D^{N}$ density matrices acting in $ \mathcal{H}_{D}^{\otimes N} $ Hilbert spaces which describe the ensembles of $ N $ quantum systems of $ D $ eigenstates each. Resulting general formulas have been then analyzed for the widest special type of one-parametric density matrices of arbitrary dimensionality, which model equivalent quantum subsystems being equally connected (EC-) with each other by means of a single entnaglement parameter $ p $. In particular, for the family of such EC-density matrices it has been found that there exists a number of $ N $- and $ D $-dependent separability (or entanglement) thresholds $ p_{th}(N,D) $ which in the case of a qubit-pair density matrix in $ \mathcal{H}_{2} \otimes \mathcal{H}_{2} $ Hilbert space are shown to reduce to well-known results obtained earlier by Peres [5] and Horodecki [6]. As the result, a number of remarkable features of the entanglement thresholds for EC-density matrices has been described for the first time. All novel results being obtained for the family of arbitrary EC-density matrices are shown to be applicable for a wide range of both interacting and non-interacting multi-partite quantum systems, such as arrays of qubits, spin chains, ensembles of quantum oscillators, strongly correlated quantum many-body systems with the possibility of many-body localization, etc.

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Abstract A criterion for entanglement detection based on covariance matrices for an arbitrary set of observables is formulated. The method generalizes the covariance matrix entanglement criterion by Simon (2000 Phys. Rev. Lett. 84 2726) to a more general set of operators using the positive partial transpose test for the covariance matrix. The relation is found by starting from the generalized uncertainty relation for multiple operators, and taking the partial transpose on the bipartition. The method is highly efficient and versatile in the sense that the set of measurement operators can be freely chosen, and there is no constraint on the commutation relations. The main restriction on the chosen set of measurement operators is that the correlators and expectation values of the partially transposed observable operators can be evaluated. The method is particularly suited for systems with higher dimensionality since the computations do not scale with the dimension of the Hilbert space—rather they scale with the number of chosen observables. We illustrate the approach by examining the entanglement between two spin ensembles, and show that it detects entanglement in a basis independent way.
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