Published July 2019 | Version v1
Journal article

Decomposition of completely symmetric states

  • 1. National University of Singapore, Department of Mathematics (Singapore)

Description

Symmetry is a fundamental milestone of quantum physics, and the relation between entanglement is one of the central mysteries of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we consider a subclass of symmetric quantum states in the bipartite system, namely the completely symmetric states, which is invariant under the index permutation. We investigate the separability of these states. After studying some examples, we conjecture that the completely symmetric state is separable if and only if it is S-separable, i.e., each term in this decomposition is a symmetric pure product state |x,xx,x|. It was proved to be true when the rank does not exceed max{4,N+1}. After studying the properties of these state, we propose a numerical algorithm which is able to detect S-separability. This algorithm is based on the best separable approximation, which furthermore turns out to be applicable to test the separability of quantum states in bosonic system. Besides, we analyse the convergence behaviour of this algorithm. Some numerical examples are tested to show the effectiveness of the algorithm.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Quantum Information Processing (Print)
Journal Volume
18
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 1-46
ISSN
1570-0755

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Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
52037890
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE; DECOMPOSITION; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM MECHANICS; QUANTUM STATES; SYMMETRY
Descriptors DEC
CHEMICAL REACTIONS; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MECHANICS

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