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View SchemaA two-way algorithm for the entanglement problem
| Authors | Florian Hulpke, Dagmar Bruss |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0407179 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0407179 |
| DOI | 10.1088/0305-4470/38/24/011 |
| Journal | J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 38, 5573 (2005) |
Abstract
We propose an algorithm which proves a given bipartite quantum state to be separable in a finite number of steps. Our approach is based on the search for a decomposition via a countable subset of product states, which is dense within all product states. Performing our algorithm simultaneously with the algorithm by Doherty, Parrilo and Spedalieri (which proves a quantum state to be entangled in a finite number of steps) leads to a two-way algorithm that terminates for any input state. Only for a set of arbitrary small measure near the border between separable and entangled states the result is inconclusive.
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