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Finite Pauli dimer spectrum and exact separability threshold
Statement
Use from Pauli matrices and the two-qubit exchange operator, with singlet projection and triplet projection , where . For each dimensionless , define the finite two-qubit density matrix Then is separable exactly when , and it is entangled exactly when . In particular, the equality state at is separable.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The Pauli matrices and exchange operator, the singlet/triplet eigenspaces, the finite density and separability definitions, and the dimensionless parameter .
Spectrum of the two-qubit Pauli exchange matrix and Pauli matrices and the two-qubit exchange operator: the singlet is a unit vector, the three triplets form an orthonormal basis of , and has eigenvalue on and eigenvalue on that triplet space. The rank-one convention gives , so is the orthogonal projection onto and is the orthogonal projection onto the triplet space; their ranks are one and three.
Finite two-qubit density matrices and separability: a density matrix is Hermitian, positive semidefinite, and has trace one.
Bloch-ball representation of a qubit density matrix: the Bloch-coordinate matrix with vector is the positive trace-one matrix .
Finite two-qubit density matrices and separability: a separable two-qubit density matrix is a finite convex combination of product qubit density matrices.
Pauli exchange expectation bound for separable states: every separable two-qubit density matrix has .
Explicit separable state at the Pauli dimer boundary: is separable.
The natural logarithm as the inverse of the exponential function, The real exponential function and the number by a power series, and Order, continuity, range, and the product, quotient, and reciprocal laws for the natural logarithm: is the inverse of the strictly increasing real exponential on positive reals, so is equivalent to .
Proof
The projections are orthogonal and have ranks one and three by [F1]. Their weighted sum in the definition of is therefore positive, and its trace is ; division normalizes its trace to one. By [F2] this is a two-qubit density matrix. Its singlet probability is .
Using the two eigenvalues in [F1], . For , , hence , and exactly when , equivalently by [F7].
If , step 2.1 gives . This contradicts the lower bound [F5] satisfied by every separable state, so is entangled.
If , step 2.1 gives . The spectral projections in [F1] give ; substituting [F6] yields . Both coefficients are nonnegative and sum to one; [F3] makes a qubit density matrix, so is a product density matrix. Thus [F4] and [F6] make separable, including at equality .
Depends on
Pauli matrices and the two-qubit exchange operator
Spectrum of the two-qubit Pauli exchange matrix
Finite two-qubit density matrices and separability
Bloch-ball representation of a qubit density matrix
Pauli exchange expectation bound for separable states
Explicit separable state at the Pauli dimer boundary
The natural logarithm as the inverse of the exponential function
The real exponential function and the number by a power series
Order, continuity, range, and the product, quotient, and reciprocal laws for the natural logarithm