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View SchemaA Geometric Picture of Entanglement and Bell Inequalities
| Authors | R. A. Bertlmann, H. Narnhofer, W. Thirring |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0111116 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0111116 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.66.032319 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev. A66 (2002) 032319 |
Abstract
We work in the real Hilbert space H_s of hermitian Hilbert-Schmid operators and show that the entanglement witness which shows the maximal violation of a generalized Bell inequality (GBI) is a tangent functional to the convex set S subset H_s of separable states. This violation equals the euclidean distance in H_s of the entangled state to S and thus entanglement, GBI and tangent functional are only different aspects of the same geometric picture. This is explicitly illustrated in the example of two spins, where also a comparison with familiar Bell inequalities is presented.
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