We introduce a feasible method of constructing the entanglement witness that
detects the genuine entanglement of a given pure multiqubit state. We
illustrate our method in the scenario of constructing the witnesses for the
multiqubit states that are broadly theoretically and experimentally
investigated. It is shown that our method can construct the effective witnesses
for experiments. We also investigate the entanglement detection of symmetric
states and mixed states.Comment: Revtex, 11 page
The bipartite quantum states ρ, with rank strictly smaller than the maximum of the ranks of the reduced states ρA and ρB, are distillable by local operations and classical communication [37]. Our first main result is that this is also true for NPT states with rank equal to this maximum. (A state is PPT if the partial transpose of its density matrix is positive semidefinite, and otherwise it is NPT.) This was conjectured first in 1999 in the special case when the ranks of ρA and ρB are equal (see [37, arXiv preprint]). Our second main result provides a complete solution of the separability problem for bipartite states of rank 4. Namely, we show that such a state is separable if and only if it is PPT and its range contains at least one product state. We also prove that the so called checkerboard states are distillable if and only if they are NPT.
We provide methods for computing the geometric measure of entanglement for two families of pure states with both experimental and theoretical interests: symmetric multiqubit states with non-negative amplitudes in the Dicke basis and symmetric three-qubit states. In addition, we study the geometric measure of pure three-qubit states systematically in virtue of a canonical form of their two-qubit reduced states, and derive analytical formulae for a three-parameter family of threequbit states. Based on this result, we further show that the W state is the maximally entangled three-qubit state with respect to the geometric measure.
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