We investigate several problems in entanglement theory from the perspective of convex optimization. This list of problems comprises (A) the decision whether a state is multi-party entangled, (B) the minimization of expectation values of entanglement witnesses with respect to pure product states, (C) the closely related evaluation of the geometric measure of entanglement to quantify pure multi-party entanglement, (D) the test whether states are multi-party entangled on the basis of witnesses based on second moments and on the basis of linear entropic criteria, and (E) the evaluation of instances of maximal output purities of quantum channels. We show that these problems can be formulated as certain optimization problems: as polynomially constrained problems employing polynomials of degree three or less. We then apply very recently established known methods from the theory of semi-definite relaxations to the formulated optimization problems. By this construction we arrive at a hierarchy of efficiently solvable approximations to the solution, approximating the exact solution as closely as desired, in a way that is asymptotically complete. For example, this results in a hierarchy of novel, efficiently decidable sufficient criteria for multi-particle entanglement, such that every entangled state will necessarily be detected in some step of the hierarchy. Finally, we present numerical examples to demonstrate the practical accessibility of this approach.
Hierarchies of Gaussian multimode entanglement from thermodynamic quantifiers
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, A CI of Homi Bhabha National Institute（哈里什-钱德拉研究所，霍米·巴巴国立学院成员机构）；NextQuantum Innovation Research Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University（首尔大学物理与天文学系下一代量子创新研究中心）
The distribution of typical bipartite pure states is studied within the framework of state transformation via local operation and classical communication (LOCC). We report the statistics of comparable and incomparable states in different dimensions for single- and multi-copy regimes and establish a connection between state transformation and the difference between the entanglement contents of the initial and the target states. From the analysis of catalyst resources, required to further otherwise impossible LOCC transformations between pairs, we demonstrate a universal pattern in the average a…
Entanglement cost hierarchies in quantum fragmented mixed states
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics（Perimeter理论物理研究所）；Technical University of Munich（慕尼黑工业大学）；Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST)（慕尼黑量子科学与技术中心）；California Institute of Technology（加州理工学院）
Complete Hierarchies for the Geometric Measure of Entanglement
Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät, Universität Siegen（锡根大学自然科学技术学院）；GIQ - Quantum Information Group, Department of Physics, Autonomous University of Barcelona（巴塞罗那自治大学物理系量子信息小组）；Department of Physics, Shandong University（山东大学物理学院）
We consider the entanglement marginal problem, which consists of deciding whether a number of reduced density matrices are compatible with an overall separable quantum state. To tackle this problem, we propose hierarchies of semidefinite programming relaxations of the set of quantum state marginals admitting a fully separable extension. We connect the completeness of each hierarchy to the resolution of an analog classical marginal problem and thus identify relevant experimental situations where the hierarchies are complete. For finitely many parties on a star configuration or a chain, we find …
We introduce a hierarchy of linear systems for showing that a given subspace of pure quantum states is entangled (i.e., contains no product states). This hierarchy outperforms known methods already at the first level, and it is complete in the sense that every entangled subspace is shown to be so at some finite level of the hierarchy. It generalizes straightforwardly to the case of higher Schmidt rank, as well as the multipartite cases of completely and genuinely entangled subspaces. These hierarchies work extremely well in practice even in very large quantum systems, as they can be implemente…
Hierarchies among genuine multipartite entangling capabilities of quantum gates
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, A CI of Homi Bhabha National Institute（哈里什-钱德拉研究所，霍米·巴巴国立学院下属机构）；Gandhi Institute of Technology and Management (Deemed to be University)（甘地科技与管理学院（视为大学））
Quantum resource theory under different classes of quantum operations advances multiperspective understandings of inherent quantum-mechanical properties, such as quantum coherence and quantum entanglement. We establish hierarchies of different operations for manipulating coherence and entanglement in distributed settings, where at least one of the two spatially separated parties are restricted from generating coherence. In these settings, we introduce new classes of operations and also characterize those maximal, i.e., the resource-non-generating operations, progressing beyond existing studies…
Werner states are multipartite quantum states that are invariant under the diagonal conjugate action of the unitary group. This paper gives a complete characterization of their entanglement that is independent of the underlying local Hilbert space: for every entangled Werner state there exists a dimension-free entanglement witness. The construction of such a witness is formulated as an optimization problem. To solve it, two semidefinite programming hierarchies are introduced. The first one is derived using real algebraic geometry applied to positive polynomials in the entries of a Gram matrix,…
Quantum inflation and source-transfer hierarchies are complete for tree networks
Inria, CPHT, LIX, CNRS, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris（法国国家信息与自动化研究所，计算物理与理论化学中心，计算机科学与理论实验室，法国国家科学研究中心，巴黎综合理工学院，巴黎理工学院）；University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics（卢布尔雅那大学，数学与物理学院）；University of Primorska, Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Information Technologies（沿海大学，数学、自然科学与信息技术学院）
In this letter, we present a simple and new idea to generate two types of novel integrable multi-Lévy-index and mix-Lévy-index (mixed) fractional nonlinear soliton hierarchies, containing multi-index and mixed fractional higher-order nonlinear Schrödinger (NLS) hierarchy, fractional complex modified Korteweg-de Vries (cmKdV) hierarchy, and fractional mKdV hierarchy. Their explicit forms can be given using the completeness of squared eigenfunctions. Moreover, we present their anomalous dispersion relations via their linearizations, and fractional multi-soliton solutions via the inverse scatteri…
We propose entanglement criteria for multipartite systems via symmetric informationally complete (SIC) measurement and general symmetric informationally complete (GSIC) measurement. We apply these criteria to detect entanglement of multipartite states, such as the convex of Bell states, entangled states mixed with white noise. It is shown that these criteria are stronger than some existing ones.
A crucial issue in quantum communication tasks is characterizing how quantum resources can be quantified and distributed over many parties. Consequently, entanglement has been explored extensively. However, the genuine entanglement still lacks of studying. There are few genuine multipartite entanglement measures and whether it is monogamous is unknown so far. In this work, we explore the complete monogamy of genuine multipartite entanglement measure (GMEM) for which, at first, we investigate a framework for unified/complete GMEM according to the unified/complete multipartite entanglement measu…
We study entanglement witness and present a construction of entanglement witnesses in terms of the symmetric informationally complete measurements (SIC-POVM). The capability of our witness is shown by some examples and it can be found this witness detects more entanglement than previous separability method given also by SIC-POVM. What's more, comparing with the dimension dependence of SIC-POVM, we also give the entanglement witnesses can be always constructed from general symmetric informationally complete measurements (GSIC-POVM).
量子可观测量的完全测量（英语：Complete measurement of a quantum observable，POVM）是对POVM的最大精细化版本的测量。完整的测量给出了测量结果的多重性信息，可以被视为状态准备过程。而且，任何可观测的都可以被完全测量。在这封信中，我们证明了一个完整的测量完全打破了系统，辅助系统和它们的环境之间的纠缠。最后，量子芝诺效应和完整的位置测量的后果进行了讨论。
Although quantum entanglement has already been verified experimentally and applied in quantum computing, quantum sensing and quantum networks, most of the existing measures cannot characterize the entanglement faithfully. In this work, by exploiting the Schmidt decomposition of a bipartite state $|ψ\rangle_{AB}$, we first establish a one-to-one correspondence relation between the characteristic polynomial of the reduced state $ρ_A$ and the polynomials its trace. Then we introduce a family of entanglement measures which are given by the complete eigenvalues of the reduced density matrices of th…
We introduce a simple sufficient criterion, which allows one to tell whether a subspace of a bipartite or multipartite Hilbert space is entangled. The main ingredient of our criterion is a bound on the minimal entanglement of a subspace in terms of entanglement of vectors spanning that subspace expressed for geometrical measures of entanglement. The criterion is applicable to both completely and genuinely entangled subspaces. We explore its usefulness in several important scenarios. Further, an entanglement criterion for mixed states following directly from the condition is stated. As an auxil…
