Werner state

A Werner state^[1] is a d × d-dimensional bipartite quantum state density matrix that is invariant under all unitary operators of the form $U\otimes U$ . That is, it is a quantum state ρ that satisfies

\rho =(U\otimes U)\rho (U^{\dagger }\otimes U^{\dagger })

for all unitary operators U acting on d-dimensional Hilbert space.

Every Werner state is a mixture of projectors onto the symmetric and antisymmetric subspaces, with the relative weight p_sym being the only parameter that defines the state.

\rho =p_{{\text{sym}}}{\frac {2}{d^{2}+d}}P_{{\text{sym}}}+(1-p_{{\text{sym}}}){\frac {2}{d^{2}-d}}P_{{\text{as}}},

where

P_{{\text{sym}}}={\frac {1}{2}}(1+P),

P_{{\text{as}}}={\frac {1}{2}}(1-P),

are the projectors and

P=\sum _{{ij}}|i\rangle \langle j|\otimes |j\rangle \langle i|

is the permutation operator that exchanges the two subsystems.

Werner states are separable for p_sym ≥ ¹⁄₂ and entangled for p_sym < ¹⁄₂. All entangled Werner states violate the PPT separability criterion, but for d ≥ 3 no Werner states violate the weaker reduction criterion. Werner states can be parametrized in different ways. One way of writing them is

\rho ={\frac {1}{d^{2}-d\alpha }}(1-\alpha P),

where the new parameter α varies between −1 and 1 and relates to p_sym as

\alpha =((1-2p_{{\text{sym}}})d+1)/(1-2p_{{\text{sym}}}+d).

Multipartite Werner states

Werner states can be generalized to the multipartite case.^[2] An N-party Werner state is a state that is invariant under $U\otimes U\otimes ...\otimes U$ for any unitary U on a single subsystem. The Werner state is no longer described by a single parameter, but by N! − 1 parameters, and is a linear combination of the N! different permutations on N systems.

References

↑ Reinhard F. Werner (1989). "Quantum states with Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations admitting a hidden-variable model". Physical Review A. 40 (8): 4277–4281. Bibcode:1989PhRvA..40.4277W. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.40.4277. PMID 9902666.
↑ Eggeling et al. (2008)

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