Method for direct detection of quantum entanglement.

Journal article

Basing on positive maps separability criterion we propose the experimentally viable, direct detection of quantum entanglement. It is efficient and does not require any a priori knowledge about the state. For two qubits it provides a sharp (i.e., "if and only if") separability test and estimation of amount of entanglement. We view this method as a new form of quantum computation, namely, as a decision problem with quantum data structure.

Authors: Horodecki, P; Ekert, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Physical Review Letters
• Volume: 89
• Issue: 12
• Pages: 127902
• Publication date: 2002-09-01
• DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.89.127902
• EISSN: 1079-7114
• ISSN: 0031-9007
• Language: English
• Keywords: quant-ph