Pure-state transformations and catalysis under operations that completely preserve positivity of partial transpose

dc.creatorMatthews, William
dc.creatorWinter, Andreas
dc.date2008-01-28
dc.date2008-10-26
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dc.descriptionMotivated by the desire to better understand the class of quantum operations on bipartite systems that preserve positivity of partial transpose (PPT operations) and its relation to the class LOCC (local operations and classical communication), we present some results on deterministic bipartite pure state transformations by PPT operations. Restricting our attention to the case where we start with a rank K maximally entangled state, we give a necessary condition for transforming it into a given pure state, which we show is also sufficient when K is two and the final state has Schmidt rank three. We show that it is sufficient for all K and all final states provided a conjecture about a certain family of semidefinite programs is true. We also demonstrate that the phenomenon of catalysis can occur under PPT operations and that, unlike LOCC catalysis, a maximally entangled state can be a catalyst. Finally, we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the possibility of transforming a rank K maximally entangled state to an arbitrary pure state by PPT operations assisted by some maximally entangled catalyst.
dc.description12 pages, 2 figures. v2: Journal version; Typos fixed
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4322
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0801.4322
dc.identifierPhys. Rev. A 78, 012317 (2008)
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevA.78.012317
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/172307
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titlePure-state transformations and catalysis under operations that completely preserve positivity of partial transpose
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