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View SchemaCharacterization of separable states and entanglement witnesses
| Authors | M. Lewenstein, B. Kraus, P. Horodecki, J. I. Cirac |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0005112 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0005112 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.63.044304 |
Abstract
We provide a canonical form of mixed states in bipartite quantum systems in terms of a convex combination of a separable state and a, so-called, edge state. We construct entanglement witnesses for all edge states. We present a canonical form of nondecomposable entanglement witnesses and the corresponding positive maps. We provide constructive methods for their optimization in a finite number of steps. We present a characterization of separable states using a special class of entanglement witnesses. Finally, we present a nontrivial necessary condition for entanglement witnesses and positive maps to be extremal.
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