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Maximally entangled state and Bell’s inequality in qubits

Journal Article · · Annals of Physics
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  1. Joint Quantum Institute and Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science, NIST/University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 (United States)
  2. Department of Physics and Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, ROC (China)
  3. National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan, ROC (China)

A maximally entangled state is a quantum state which has maximum von Neumann entropy for each bipartition. Through proposing a new method to classify quantum states by using concurrences of pure states of a region, one can apply Bell’s inequality to study intensity of quantum entanglement of maximally entangled states. We use a class of seven-qubit quantum states to demonstrate the method, in which we express all coefficients of the quantum states in terms of concurrences of pure states of a region. When a critical point of an upper bound of Bell’s inequality occurs in our quantum states, one of the quantum state is a ground state of the toric code model on a disk manifold. Our result also implies that the maximally entangled states do not suggest local maximum quantum entanglement in our quantum states.

OSTI ID:
22848368
Journal Information:
Annals of Physics, Journal Name: Annals of Physics Vol. 395; ISSN 0003-4916; ISSN APNYA6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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