A mirrored pair of optimal non-decomposable entanglement witnesses for two qudits does exist

Abstract Two approaches can be utilized to handle the separability problem, finding out whether a given bipartite qudit state is separable or not: a direct procedure on the state space or the effective tool of entanglement witnesses (EWs). This contribution studies the structure of EWs. Exploiting t...

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Main Authors: Dariusz Chruściński, Anindita Bera, Joonwoo Bae, Beatrix C. Hiesmayr
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Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10985-0
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description Abstract Two approaches can be utilized to handle the separability problem, finding out whether a given bipartite qudit state is separable or not: a direct procedure on the state space or the effective tool of entanglement witnesses (EWs). This contribution studies the structure of EWs. Exploiting the very concept of mirrored EWs, increasing the detection power, we show, in contrast to the conjecture in a recent paper (Bera et al. in Sci Rep 13:10733, 2023), there exist pairs of optimal EWs, which are both non-decomposible, i.e. can detect bound/PPT-entangled states in an optimal way. Since we show that the structure also extends to higher dimensions, our results reveal a further structure of entanglement witnesses.
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spelling doaj-art-d87d3b961eb14d9e8fbd6b30d21f00052025-08-20T04:01:51ZengNature PortfolioScientific Reports2045-23222025-08-0115111210.1038/s41598-025-10985-0A mirrored pair of optimal non-decomposable entanglement witnesses for two qudits does existDariusz Chruściński0Anindita Bera1Joonwoo Bae2Beatrix C. Hiesmayr3Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus UniversityDepartment of Mathematics, Birla Institute of Technology MesraSchool of Electrical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)University of Vienna, Faculty of PhysicsAbstract Two approaches can be utilized to handle the separability problem, finding out whether a given bipartite qudit state is separable or not: a direct procedure on the state space or the effective tool of entanglement witnesses (EWs). This contribution studies the structure of EWs. Exploiting the very concept of mirrored EWs, increasing the detection power, we show, in contrast to the conjecture in a recent paper (Bera et al. in Sci Rep 13:10733, 2023), there exist pairs of optimal EWs, which are both non-decomposible, i.e. can detect bound/PPT-entangled states in an optimal way. Since we show that the structure also extends to higher dimensions, our results reveal a further structure of entanglement witnesses.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10985-0
spellingShingle Dariusz Chruściński
Anindita Bera
Joonwoo Bae
Beatrix C. Hiesmayr
A mirrored pair of optimal non-decomposable entanglement witnesses for two qudits does exist
Scientific Reports
title A mirrored pair of optimal non-decomposable entanglement witnesses for two qudits does exist
title_full A mirrored pair of optimal non-decomposable entanglement witnesses for two qudits does exist
title_fullStr A mirrored pair of optimal non-decomposable entanglement witnesses for two qudits does exist
title_full_unstemmed A mirrored pair of optimal non-decomposable entanglement witnesses for two qudits does exist
title_short A mirrored pair of optimal non-decomposable entanglement witnesses for two qudits does exist
title_sort mirrored pair of optimal non decomposable entanglement witnesses for two qudits does exist
url https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-10985-0
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