Published September 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Extreme points of the set of density matrices with positive partial transpose

  • 1. Department of Physics and Center of Mathematics for Applications, University of Oslo, N-0316 Oslo (Norway)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim (Norway)
  • 3. Department of Physics, University of Oslo, N-0316 Oslo (Norway)

Description

We present a necessary and sufficient condition for a finite-dimensional density matrix to be an extreme point of the convex set of density matrices with positive partial transpose with respect to a subsystem. We also give an algorithm for finding such extreme points and illustrate this by some examples

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
76
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 034304-034304.4
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39042410
Subject category
S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS;
Descriptors DEI
ALGORITHMS; DENSITY MATRIX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MATRICES

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(c) 2007 The American Physical Society