PIRSA:13110092

Bounding the Elliptope of Quantum Correlations & Proving Separability in Mixed States

Wolfe, E. (2013). Bounding the Elliptope of Quantum Correlations & Proving Separability in Mixed States. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/13110092

Wolfe, Elie. Bounding the Elliptope of Quantum Correlations & Proving Separability in Mixed States. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 26, 2013, https://pirsa.org/13110092 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:13110092,
            doi = {10.48660/13110092},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/13110092},
            author = {Wolfe, Elie},
            keywords = {Quantum Foundations},
            language = {en},
            title = {Bounding the Elliptope of Quantum Correlations \& Proving Separability in Mixed States},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2013},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:13110092 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Elie Wolfe Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

DOI 10.48660/13110092
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

We present a method for determining the maximum possible violation of any linear Bell inequality per quantum mechanics. Essentially this amounts to a constrained optimization problem for an observable’s eigenvalues, but the problem can be reformulated so as to be analytically tractable. This opens the door for an arbitrarily precise characterization of quantum correlations, including allowing for non-random marginal expectation values. Such a characterization is critical when contrasting QM to superficially similar general probabilistic theories. We use such marginal-involving quantum bounds to estimate the volume of all possible quantum statistics in the complete 8-dimensional probability space of the Bell-CHSH scenario, measured relative to both local hidden variable models as well as general no-signaling theories. See arXiv:1106.2169. Time permitting, we’ll also discuss how one might go about trying to prove that a given mixed state is, in fact, not entangled. (The converse problem of certifying non-zero entanglement has received extensive treatment already.) Instead of directly asking if any separable representation exists for the state, we suggest simply checking to see if it “fits” some particular known-separable form. We demonstrate how a surprisingly valuable sufficient separability criterion follows merely from considering a highly-generic separable form. The criterion we generate for diagonally-symmetric mixed states is apparently completely tight, necessary and sufficient. We use integration to quantify the “volume” of states captured by our criterion, and show that it is as large as the volume of states associated with the PPT criterion; this simultaneously proves our criterion to be necessary as well as the PPT criterion to be sufficient, on this family of states. The utility of a sufficient separability criterion is evidenced by categorically rejecting Dicke-model superradiance for entanglement generation schema. See arXiv:1307.5779.