The distillability problem revisited

dc.creatorClarisse, Lieven
dc.date2005-10-05
dc.date2006-07-19
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dc.descriptionAn important open problem in quantum information theory is the question of the existence of NPT bound entanglement. In the past years, little progress has been made, mainly because of the lack of mathematical tools to address the problem. (i) In an attempt to overcome this, we show how the distillability problem can be reformulated as a special instance of the separability problem, for which a large number of tools and techniques are available. (ii) Building up to this we also show how the problem can be formulated as a Schmidt number problem. (iii) A numerical method for detecting distillability is presented and strong evidence is given that all 1-copy undistillable Werner states are also 4-copy undistillable. (iv) The same method is used to estimate the volume of distillable states, and the results suggest that bound entanglement is primarily a phenomenon found in low dimensional quantum systems. (v) Finally, a set of one parameter states is presented which we conjecture to exhibit all forms of distillability.
dc.descriptionSeveral corrections, main results unchanged
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510035
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510035
dc.identifierQuantum Information and Computation, Vol. 6, No. 6 (2006) 539-560
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/104095
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleThe distillability problem revisited
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