Separability criterion for multipartite quantum states based on the Bloch representation of density matrices

  • Authors:
  • Ali S. M. Hassan;Pramod S. Joag

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Physics, University of Pune, Pune, India;Department of Physics, University of Pune, Pune, India

  • Venue:
  • Quantum Information & Computation
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We give a new separability criterion, a necessary condition for separability of N-partite quantum states. The criterion is based on the Bloch representation of a N-partite quantum state and makes use of multilinear algebra, in particular, the matrizationof tensors. Our criterion applies to arbitrary N-partite quantum states inH = Hd1 × Hd2 ×...×HdN. The criterion can test whether a N-partite state is entangledand can be applied to different partitions of the N-partite system. We provideexamples that show the ability of this criterion to detect entanglement. We show thatthis criterion can detect bound entangled states. We prove a sufficiency condition forseparability of a 3-partite state, straightforwardly generalizable to the case N 3, undercertain condition. We also give a necessary and sufficient condition for separability of aclass of N-qubit states which includes N-qubit PPT states.