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In this paper, a nonlinear entanglement witness criterion based on continuous-variable local orthogonal observables for bipartite states is established, which is strictly stronger than the the linear entanglement witnesses criterion introduced by Zhang et al. (Phys. Rev. Lett. 111:190501, 2013). This criterion is particularly applied to two-mode Gaussian states yielding a criterion in terms of the covariance matrix. Comparison with CCNR criterion is discussed.
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This work was completed while the first author was visiting the Institute for Quantum Computing of the University of Waterloo during the academic year 2014–2015 and she would like to thank Professor Bei Zeng for her hospitality. This work was partially supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (11171249) and Program for the Outstanding Innovative Teams of Higher Learning Institutions of Shanxi.
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Appendix
Here, we give our proofs of Theorems 2 and 4 and provide details of some calculations in the main text. Firstly, we list several properties of the Weyl operators that will be used:
Assume that \(\{G(\lambda )\}\) and \(\{\tilde{G}(\lambda )\}\) are any two CVLOOs for subsystems A and B, respectively.
By Lemma 1, we have
So
This implies that \(F(\rho _{ AB })\ge 0\) if and only if
that is, the inequalities in Theorems 2 and 4 are equivalent. In the following, we will give a proof of Theorem 4, and then, Theorem 2 follows.
Proof of Theorem 4
Since \(\rho _{ AB }\) is separable, it is the trace-norm limit of the states of the form
where \(\rho _{i,n}^A\) and \(\rho _{i,n}^B\) are, respectively, states of subsystems A and B, \(\{p_{i,n}\}\) is a probability distribution. Then,
We claim that Ineq. (21) holds for \(\rho _n\), that is,
For sake of simplicity, we write \(\rho _n=\sum _{i=1}^mp_i\rho _i^A\otimes \rho _i^B\). Then,
where the last inequality is due to Cauchy–Schwarz inequality. So
Thus, if we can prove that the inequalities
and
hold, then Ineqs. (23)–(25) imply that Ineq. (21\(^\prime \)) is true.
In fact, as \(\mathrm{Tr}(\sigma ^2)\le 1\) for any states \(\sigma \), by Lemma 1 we have
That is, Ineq. (24) holds. Similarly, one can check that Ineq. (25) is also true. Hence, Ineq. (21\(^\prime \)) holds.
Now, combining Ineq. (21\(^\prime \)) and Eq. (22), one can easily check that Ineq. (21) holds, completing the proof of the theorem. \(\square \)
Recall that for any bipartite state \(\rho _{ AB }\), its characteristic function is \(\chi (\lambda _1,\lambda _2)=\mathrm{Tr}(\rho _{ AB } D_1(\lambda _1)\otimes D_2(\lambda _2))\) and its Wigner function is \(W(\alpha _1,\alpha _2)=\frac{1}{\pi ^4}\int \mathrm{exp}[\sum _{i=1}^2(\lambda _i^*\alpha _i-\lambda _i\alpha _i^*)] \chi (\lambda _1,\lambda _2)\mathrm{d^2}\lambda _1\mathrm{d^2}\lambda _2.\) So
Then,
It follows that
Here, we have used the relation Eq. (20) and the integral \(\int \mathrm{exp}(\lambda ^*z-\lambda z^*)\mathrm{d^2}\lambda =\pi ^2\delta ^{(2)}(z)\).
Now let
where \(\mu _1\) and \(\mu _2\) are any two real numbers with \(\mu _1\not =\pm \mu _2\). Here, \(\{{\mathcal {G}}(\lambda )\}\) are defined as in Eq. (1). By Eq. (20), it is easy to check that
and so \(\{{\mathcal {G}}(\lambda )\}\) and \(\{\sqrt{|\mu _1^2-\mu _2^2|}{\mathcal {G}}(-\mu _1\lambda -\mu _2\lambda ^*)\}\) are two CVLOOs.
Now let us prove Eq. (9) in the main text by calculating \(F_2(\mu _1,\mu _2)=\int \langle G(\lambda )\otimes I-I\otimes \tilde{G}(\lambda )\rangle _{\rho _{ AB }}^2\mathrm{d^2}\lambda \). Since
by Eq. (27), we have
as desired, where \(e^{\lambda \wedge \alpha }=e^{\lambda ^*\alpha -\lambda \alpha ^*}\).
Assume that \(\rho _{ AB }\) is any two-mode Gaussian state. The Wigner function of \(\rho _{ AB }\) is
where \(\mathcal {V}\) is the standard covariance matrix given by Eq. (15) in the main text, \(\xi =(x_1,p_1,x_2,p_2)\) is the four-dimensional real vector and \(\alpha _i=x_i+ip_i\).
It is easy to calculate \(\mathrm{Det}{\mathcal {V}}=(ab-c_1^2)(ab-c_2^2)\) and
Substituting this Gaussian state Wigner function (29) into (28) and using the following Gaussian functional integral formula six times:
one can get
Finally, let us prove Eq. (16). For \(F_2(\mu _1,\mu _2)\), one can obtain
and
So
that is,
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Qi, X., Hou, J. Nonlinear entanglement witnesses based on continuous-variable local orthogonal observables for bipartite systems. Quantum Inf Process 15, 741–759 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-015-1156-0
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