A priori Probabilities of Separable Quantum States

Details A priori Probabilities of Separable Quantum States A priori Probabilities of Separable Quantum States

1998-10-08

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9810026v5

J.Phys.A32:5261,1999

Physics

Quantum Physics

14 pages, 4 tables, 4 figures, to appear in J. Phys. A

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/32/28/306

Zyczkowski, Horodecki, Sanpera, and Lewenstein (ZHSL) recently proposed a ``natural measure'' on the N-dimensional quantum systems (quant-ph/9804024), but expressed surprise when it led them to conclude that for N = 2 x 2, disentangled (separable) systems are more probable (0.632) in nature than entangled ones. We contend, however, that ZHSL's (rejected) intuition has, in fact, a sound theoretical basis, and that the a priori probability of disentangled 2 x 2 systems should more properly be viewed as (considerably) less than 0.5. We arrive at this conclusion in two quite distinct ways, the first based on classical and the second, quantum considerations. Both approaches, however, replace (in whole or part) the ZHSL (product) measure by ones based on the volume elements of monotone metrics, which in the classical case amounts to adopting the Jeffreys' prior of Bayesian theory. Only the quantum-theoretic analysis (which yields the smallest probabilities of disentanglement) uses the minimum number of parameters possible, N^2 - 1, as opposed to N^2 + N - 1 (although this "over-parameterization", as recently indicated by Byrd, should be avoidable). However, despite substantial computation, we are not able to obtain precise estimates of these probabilities, and the need for additional (possibly supercomputer) analyses is indicated (particularly so, for higher-dimensional quantum systems, such as the 2 x 3 we also study here).

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