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Phys. Rev. A 77, 032318 (2008) [6 pages]

Robustness of entangled states that are positive under partial transposition

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Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay*
DIRO, Université de Montréal, Case Postale 6128, Succursale Centre-Ville, Montréal, Québec, Canada H3C 3J7

Sibasish Ghosh
The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, C. I. T Campus, Taramani, Chennai 600113, India

Vwani Roychowdhury
Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA

Received 19 September 2007; revised 7 December 2007; published 12 March 2008

We study robustness of bipartite entangled states that are positive under partial transposition (PPT). It is shown that almost all PPT entangled states are unconditionally robust, in the sense, both inseparability and positivity are preserved under sufficiently small perturbations in its immediate neighborhood. Such unconditionally robust PPT entangled states lie inside an open PPT entangled ball. We construct examples of such balls whose radii are shown to be finite and can be explicitly calculated. This provides a lower bound on the volume of all PPT entangled states. Multipartite generalization of our constructions is also outlined.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.032318
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.77.032318
PACS:
03.67.Mn, 03.65.Ud

*bandyo@iro.umontreal.ca

sibasish@imsc.res.in

vwani@ee.ucla.edu