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arXiv:quant-ph/0011111 · Physical Review A

Local filtering operations on two qubits

Frank Verstraete, Jeroen Dehaene, Bart DeMoor

Published Jun 5, 2001• 200 citations
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Abstract

We consider one single copy of a mixed state of two qubits and investigate how its entanglement changes under local quantum operations and classical communications (LQCC) of the type ${\ensuremath{\rho}}^{\ensuremath{'}}\ensuremath{\sim}(A\ensuremath{\bigotimes}B)\ensuremath{\rho}(A\ensuremath{\bigotimes}{B)}^{\ifmmode\dagger\else\textdagger\fi{}}.$ We consider a real matrix parametrization of the set of density matrices and show that these LQCC operations correspond to left and right multiplication by a Lorentz matrix, followed by normalization. A constructive way of bringing this matrix into a normal form is derived. This allows us to calculate explicitly the optimal local filtering operations for concentrating entanglement. Furthermore, we give a complete characterization of the mixed states that can be purified arbitrarily close to a Bell state. Finally, we obtain a new way of calculating the entanglement of formation.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.64.010101

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The optimal entanglement manipulation for a single copy of mixed states of two qubits is to transform it to a Bell diagonal state. In this paper we derive an explicit form of the local operation that can realize such a transformation. The result obtained is universal for arbitrary entangled two-qubit states and it discloses that the corresponding local filter is not unique for density matrices with rank n=2n=2n=2 and can be exclusively determined for that with n=3n=3n=3 and 4. As illustrations, a four-parameter family of mixed states are explored, the local filter as well as the transformation probability are given explicitly, which verify the validity of the general result.
We consider a single copy of a mixed state of two qubits and prove tight lower and upper bounds for its fidelity in terms of its concurrence or negativity. Next we derive the optimal filtering operations and the optimal trace-preserving local operations assisted by classical communication (LOCC) such as to maximize the fidelity of a given copy of a mixed state of two qubits. The optimal LOCC operations turn out to be very simple and implementable by 1-LOCC protocols, and always yield a fidelity larger then 1/2 if the original state was entangled.
All mixed states of two qubits can be brought into normal form by the action of local operations and classical communication operations of the kind ${\ensuremath{\rho}}^{\ensuremath{'}}=(A\ensuremath{\bigotimes}B)\ensuremath{\rho}(A\ensuremath{\bigotimes}{B)}^{\ifmmode\dagger\else\textdagger\fi{}}.$ These normal forms can be obtained by considering a Lorentz singular-value decomposition on a real parametrization of the density matrix. We show that the Lorentz singular values are variationally defined and give rise to entanglement monotones, with as a special case the concurrence. Next a necessary and sufficient criterion is conjectured for a mixed state to be convertible into another specific one with a nonzero probability. Finally the formalism of the Lorentz singular-value decomposition is applied to tripartite pure states of qubits. New proofs are given for the existence of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) class and W class of states, and a rigorous proof for the optimal distillation of a GHZ state is derived.
In this thesis, the entangled mixed states of two qubits are considered. In the case where the matrix rank of the corresponding density matrix is 2, such a state can be purified to a pure state of 3 qubits. By utilizing this representation, the classification of such states of two qubits by stochastic local operations assisted by classical communication (SLOCC) is obtained. Also for such states, the optimal ensemble that appears in the computation of the concurrence and entanglement of formation is obtained.