Nirman Ganguly

Entanglement witness operator for quantum teleportation.

The ability of entangled states to act as a resource for teleportation is linked to a property of the fully entangled fraction. We show that the set of states with their fully entangled fraction bounded by a threshold value required for performing teleportation is both convex and compact. This feature enables the existence of Hermitian witness operators, the measurement of which could distinguish unknown states useful for performing teleportation. We present an example of such a witness operator illustrating it for different classes of states.

Witness of mixed separable states useful for entanglement creation

Absolutely separable states form a special subset of the set of all separable states, as they remain separable under any global unitary transformation unlike other separable states. In this work we consider the set of absolutely separable bipartite states and show that it is convex and compact in any arbitrary dimensional Hilbert space. Through a generic approach of construction of suitable hermitian operators we prove the completeness of the separation axiom for identifying any separable state that is not absolutely separable. We demonstrate the action of such witness operators in different qudit systems. Examples of mixed separable systems are provided, pointing out the utility of the witness in entanglement creation using quantum gates. Decomposition of witnesses in terms of spin operators or photon polarizations facilitates their measureability for qubit states.

Quantum cloning, Bell's inequality and teleportation

We analyse the possibility of using the two-qubit output state from the Buzek–Hillery quantum copying machine (not necessarily a universal quantum cloning machine) as a teleportation channel. We show that there is a range of values of the machine parameter ξ for which the two-qubit output state is entangled and violates the Bell-CHSH inequality and for a different range it remains entangled but does not violate the Bell-CHSH inequality. Further, we observe that for certain values of the machine parameter the two-qubit mixed state can be used as a teleportation channel. The use of the output state from the Buzek–Hillery cloning machine as a teleportation channel provides an additional appeal to the cloning machine and motivation for our present work.

Construction of optimal teleportation witness operators from entanglement witnesses

Teleportation witnesses are hermitian operators which can identify useful entanglement for quantum teleportation. Here we provide a systematic method to construct teleportation witnesses from entanglement witnesses corresponding to general qudit systems. The witnesses so constructed are shown to be optimal for qubit and qutrit systems, and therefore detect the largest set of states useful for teleportation within a given class. We demonstrate the action of the witness pertaining to different classes of states in qubits and qutrits. Decomposition of the witness in terms of spin operators facilitiates experimental identification of useful resources for teleportation.

Witness for edge states and its characteristics

Edge states lying at the edge of positive-partial-transpose- (PPT-) entangled states have a very intriguing existence and their detection is equally interesting. We present here a witness for detection of edge states. We then compare between our proposed witness operator and the witness operator proposed by Lewenstein et al. [Phys. Rev. A 62, 052310 (2000)] in terms of the efficiency in the detection of PPT entangled states. In this regard we show that this operator is finer than the operator of Lewenstein et al. in some restrictions. We also discuss about its experimental realization via Gell-Mann matrices.

Common entanglement witnesses and their characteristics

We investigate the issue of finding common entanglement witness for certain class of states and extend this study to the case of Schmidt number witnesses. We also introduce the notion of common decomposable and non-decomposable witness operators which is specially useful for constructing a common witness where one of the entangled states is with a positive partial transpose. Our approach is illustrated with the help of suitable examples of qutrit systems.

Non-negativity of conditional von Neumann entropy and global unitary operations

Conditional von Neumann entropy is an intriguing concept in quantum information theory. In the present work, we examine the effect of global unitary operations on the conditional entropy of the system. We start with the set containing states with non-negative conditional entropy and find that some states preserve the non-negativity under unitary operations on the composite system. We call this class of states as Absolute Conditional von Neumann entropy Non Negative class (\textbf{ACVENN}). We are able to characterize such states for

Deletion, Bell's inequality, teleportation

2\otimes 2

A cloned qutrit and its utility in information processing tasks

dimensional systems. On a different perspective the characterization accentuates the detection of states whose conditional entropy becomes negative after the global unitary action. Interestingly, we are able to show that this \textbf{ACVENN} class of states forms a set which is convex and compact. This feature enables for the existence of hermitian witness operators the measurement of which could distinguish unknown states which will have negative conditional entropy after the global unitary operation. This has immediate application in super dense coding and state merging as negativity of conditional entropy plays a key role in both these information processing tasks. Some illustrations are also provided to probe the connection of such states with Absolute separable (AS) states and Absolute local (AL) states.

Entanglement and Mixedness of Locally Cloned Non-Maximal W-State

In this letter we analyze the efficacy of the entangled output of Pati-Braunstein (arxiv:quant-ph/0007121v1, 2000) deletion machine as a teleportation channel. We analyze the possibility of it violating the Bell’s inequality. Interestingly we find that for all values of the input parameter α the state does not violate the Bell’s inequality but when used as a teleportation channel can give a fidelity higher than the classical optimum