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When is a state entangled?
I have read from What's the difference between an entangled state, a superposed state and a cat state? that an entangled state is one that cannot be expressed as product state. Suppose we have the ...
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Seperable Quantum States
Some similar questions have been ask before, but I still don't really get the definition of seperable states in quantum mechanics.
Consider a bell state of a two qubit system.
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How do I convert this separable state into a product state?
I know two particles in a Bell state cannot be written as a product state as they are entangled. But what if I had a classically correlated state$$\rho = \frac{1}{2}(|11\rangle\langle 11| + |00\rangle\...
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A Hamiltonian acts simply on each state in some subspace. Can it be identified with a single simple operator on the subspace?
This is a simplified version of a recent question I asked. My hope is that this simplified version will be easier to tackle. The motivation behind both of these questions is roughly to ask "Given ...
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If my time evolution operator can't change my entanglement, can I find a simpler time evolution?
Consider a Hamiltonian $H$ on some spin chain of length $L$.
Suppose we have a subset of $n$ eigenstates $\{|\psi_i\rangle \}$ of $H$ obeying the following special condition. First, a couple quick ...
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Two states have the same Schmidt coefficients across every bipartition. Can they be mapped to each other by a product of single-site unitaries?
I have two states, $|\psi\rangle$ and $|\phi\rangle$. I have in mind that they live on a length $L$ spin chain with finite local Hilbert space dimension.
I know that for every Schmidt decomposition ...
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Preserving the entanglement of a 2 qubit bellstate when including a third qubit: a general case?
So suppose we have two 2-qubit bell states $|\Psi_{AB}\rangle$ and $|\Psi_{BC}\rangle$ defined the usual way. I want to create a three qubit pure state from qubits A,B, and C such that the ...
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Is there a relation between some kind of distance and the Schmidt basis?
Consider two bipartite quantum states $|\phi\rangle^{AB}$ and $|\psi\rangle^{AB}$ (in a finite dimensional Hilbert space $\mathcal H_A\otimes \mathcal H_B$), such that
$$\| |\phi\rangle\langle\phi|^{...
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Are there non-trivial two-party stabilizers in bipartite entanglement for product states?
In this recent paper where the authors discuss finite classification of entanglement types, on pg. 29 in appendix A, it is claimed that in bipartite entanglement for product state $|00\rangle$ there ...
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Confusion about the tensor product structure of a multi-fermion Hilbert space
I often see people study entanglement in fermionic systems. The setup is often like this. Suppose we have a 1d lattice of $2L $ sites, which is divided into a left part and a right part, each with $L ...
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Why is the entanglement of formation upper bounded by the Schmidt number?
I have read many times in several articles (such as https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.05033) that the entanglement of formation EoF puts a lower bound on entanglement dimensionality $d$ (i.e., the Schmidt ...
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What happens when a maximally entangled state passes through a $k$-extendible channel?
In the context of Phys. Rev. A 104, 022401 (arXiv:1803.10710), Figure 3
What happens when a maximally entangled state( not $k$ extendible even for $k=2$) passes through a $k$-extendible channel? We ...
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Can an entangled state in general be created by destructive interference in some subspace?
For instance, if we have a general two-qubit state $$|\psi\rangle=\frac{1}{2}(|0\rangle+e^{i\varphi_a}|1\rangle)\otimes(|0\rangle+e^{i\varphi_b}|1\rangle)=\frac{1}{2}(|00\rangle+e^{i\varphi_b}|01\...
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On an intuitive way of characterizing "the amount of entanglement" in a bipartite system
Context of the question:
Schlosshauer (978-3-540-35773-4, p. 33) states:
"A useful intuitive way of quantifying the entanglement present in
this state [(1)] is to consider the following question:...
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Is a state being unentangled equivalent to statistical independence for all pairs of subsystem observables?
I imagine the answer is yes since, if so, the definition of unentangled is rather non-obvious and yet it gives an operational way to check for statistical independence.
I am working with the standard (...
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