Unextendible product bases, uncompletable product bases and bound entanglement

Journal article (2003)

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David P. Divincenzo IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre
Tal Mor University of California
Peter W. Shor AT and T Research
John A. Smolin IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre
B.M. Terhal IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Centre
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Hilbert Space High Dimension Entangle State Product State Complete Characterization
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2003

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English

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Abstract

We report new results and generalizations of our work on unextendible product bases (UPB), uncompletable product bases and bound entanglement. We present a new construction for bound entangled states based on product bases which are only completable in a locally extended Hilbert space. We introduce a very useful representation of a product basis, an orthogonality graph. Using this representation we give a complete characterization of unextendible product bases for two qutrits. We present several generalizations of UPBs to arbitrary high dimensions and multipartite systems. We present a sufficient condition for sets of orthogonal product states to be distinguishable by separable superoperators. We prove that bound entangled states cannot help increase the distillable entanglement of a state beyond its regularized entanglement of formation assisted by bound entanglement.