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 ${\displaystyle U\otimes U}$. That is, it is a bipartite quantum state ${\displaystyle \rho _{AB}}$ that satisfies

${\displaystyle \rho _{AB}=(U\otimes U)\rho _{AB}(U^{\dagger }\otimes U^{\dagger })}$

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

Every Werner state ${\displaystyle W_{AB}^{(p,d)}}$ is a mixture of projectors onto the symmetric and antisymmetric subspaces, with the relative weight ${\displaystyle p\in [0,1]}$ being the main parameter that defines the state, in addition to the dimension ${\displaystyle d\geq 2}$:

${\displaystyle W_{AB}^{(p,d)}=p{\frac {2}{d(d+1)}}P_{AB}^{\text{sym}}+(1-p){\frac {2}{d(d-1)}}P_{AB}^{\text{as}},}$

where

${\displaystyle P_{AB}^{\text{sym}}={\frac {1}{2}}(I_{AB}+F_{AB}),}$

${\displaystyle P_{AB}^{\text{as}}={\frac {1}{2}}(I_{AB}-F_{AB}),}$

are the projectors and

${\displaystyle F_{AB}=\sum _{ij}|i\rangle \langle j|_{A}\otimes |j\rangle \langle i|_{B}}$

is the permutation or flip operator that exchanges the two subsystems A and B.

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

${\displaystyle \rho _{AB}={\frac {1}{d^{2}-d\alpha }}(I_{AB}-\alpha F_{AB}),}$

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

${\displaystyle \alpha =((1-2p)d+1)/(1-2p+d).}$

Werner-Holevo channels

A Werner-Holevo quantum channel ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {W}}_{A\rightarrow B}^{\left(p,d\right)}}$ with parameters ${\displaystyle p\in \left[0,1\right]}$ and integer ${\displaystyle d\geq 2}$ is defined as [2] [3] [4]

${\displaystyle {\mathcal {W}}_{A\rightarrow B}^{\left(p,d\right)}=p{\mathcal {W}}_{A\rightarrow B}^{\text{sym}}+\left(1-p\right){\mathcal {W}}_{A\rightarrow B}^{\text{as}},}$

where the quantum channels ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {W}}_{A\rightarrow B}^{\text{sym}}}$ and ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {W}}_{A\rightarrow B}^{\text{as}}}$ are defined as

${\displaystyle {\mathcal {W}}_{A\rightarrow B}^{\text{sym}}(X_{A})={\frac {1}{d+1}}\left[\operatorname {Tr} [X_{A}]I_{B}+\operatorname {id} _{A\rightarrow B}(T_{A}(X_{A}))\right],}$

${\displaystyle {\mathcal {W}}_{A\rightarrow B}^{\text{as}}(X_{A})={\frac {1}{d-1}}\left[\operatorname {Tr} [X_{A}]I_{B}-\operatorname {id} _{A\rightarrow B}(T_{A}(X_{A}))\right],}$

and ${\displaystyle T_{A}}$ denotes the partial transpose map on system A. Note that the Choi state of the Werner-Holevo channel ${\displaystyle {\mathcal {W}}_{A\rightarrow B}^{p,d}}$ is a Werner state:

${\displaystyle {\mathcal {W}}_{A\rightarrow B}^{\left(p,d\right)}(\Phi _{RA})=p{\frac {2}{d\left(d+1\right)}}P_{RB}^{\text{sym}}+\left(1-p\right){\frac {2}{d\left(d-1\right)}}P_{RB}^{\text{as}},}$

where ${\displaystyle \Phi _{RA}={\frac {1}{d}}\sum _{i,j}|i\rangle \langle j|_{R}\otimes |i\rangle \langle j|_{A}}$.

Multipartite Werner states

Werner states can be generalized to the multipartite case.[5] An N-party Werner state is a state that is invariant under ${\displaystyle U\otimes U\otimes ...\otimes U}$ 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

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2. Reinhard F. Werner and Alexander S. Holevo (2002). "Counterexample to an additivity conjecture for output purity of quantum channels". Journal of Mathematical Physics. 43 (9): 4353–4357. doi:10.1063/1.1498491.
3. Mark Fannes, B. Haegeman, Milan Mosonyi, and D. Vanpeteghem (2004). "Additivity of minimal entropy out- put for a class of covariant channels". arXiv:quant-ph/0410195. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
4. Debbie Leung and William Matthews (2015). "On the power of PPT-preserving and non-signalling codes". IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. 61 (8): 4486–4499. doi:10.1109/TIT.2015.2439953.
5. Eggeling et al. (2008)