Compatibility of subsystem states and convex geometry

Details Compatibility of subsystem states and convex geometry Compatibility of subsystem states and convex geometry

2006-10-05

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0610031v2

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Quantum Physics

12 pages APS format, some minor changes made

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The subsystem compatibility problem, which concerns the question of whether a set of subsystem states are compatible with a state of the entire system, has received much study. Here we attack the problem from a new angle, utilising the ideas of convexity that have been successfully employed against the separability problem. Analogously to an entanglement witness, we introduce the idea of a compatibility witness, and prove a number of properties about these objects. We show that the subsystem compatibility problem can be solved numerically and efficiently using semidefinite programming, and that the numerical results from this solution can be used to extract exact analytic results, an idea which we use to disprove a conjecture about the subsystem problem made by Butterley et al. [Found. Phys. 36 83 (2006)]. Finally, we consider how the ideas can be used to tackle some important variants of the compatibility problem; in particular, the case of identical particles (known as N-representability in the case of fermions) is considered.

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