Published September 2018 | Version v1
Journal article

Lorentzian geometry for detecting qubit entanglement

  • 1. Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, 560080 (India)

Description

We describe a new approach based on Lorentzian geometry to detect qubit entanglement. The treatment is based physically, on the causal structure of Minkowski spacetime, and mathematically, on a Lorentzian Singular Value Decomposition. A surprising feature is the natural emergence of "Energy conditions" used in Relativity. All states satisfy a "Dominant Energy Condition" (DEC) and separable states satisfy the Strong Energy Condition(SEC), while entangled states violate the SEC. We thus propose a test for two qubit entanglement which is an alternative to the positive partial transpose (PPT) test. This test is based on the partial Lorentz transformation (PLT) on individual qubits. Apart from testing for entanglement, our approach also enables us to construct a separable form for the density matrix in those cases where it exists. Our approach leads to a simple graphical three dimensional representation of the state space which shows the entangled states within the set of all states.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aop.2018.07.019

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.aop.2018.07.019;
arXiv
arXiv:1801.00611v1;
PII
S0003491618301908;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Annals of Physics (New York)
Journal Volume
396
Journal Page Range
p. 159-172
ISSN
0003-4916
CODEN
APNYA6

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
51009948
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
DENSITY MATRIX; LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS; MINKOWSKI SPACE; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUBITS; SPACE-TIME; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
Descriptors DEC
INFORMATION; MATHEMATICAL SPACE; MATRICES; QUANTUM INFORMATION; SPACE; TRANSFORMATIONS

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