Negativity

The negativityquant-ph/0102117 is an entanglement measure which is easy to compute.

The negativity can be defined as:


$$\mathcal{N}(\rho) := \frac{||\rho^{\Gamma_A}||_1-1}{2}$$

where:

  • ρΓA is the partial transpose of ρ with respect to subsystem A
  • $||X||_1 = Tr|X| = Tr \sqrt{X^\dagger X}$ is the trace norm or the sum of the sigular values of the operator X.

An alternative and equivalent definition is the absolute sum of the negative eigenvalues of ρΓA:


$$\mathcal{N}(\rho) := \sum_i \frac{|\lambda_{i}|-\lambda_{i}}{2}$$
where λi are all of the eigenvalues.

Properties


N(∑ipiρi) ≤ ∑ipiN(ρi)


N(P(ρi)) ≤ N(ρi)

where P(ρ) is an arbitrary LOCC operation over ρ

See also

Category:Quantum Information Theory Category:Handbook of Quantum Information Category:Entanglement

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